课文对话 · The record-holder 纪录保持者（课本 Lesson 73，印刷页 342-345）
1Children who play truant /'truːənt/ n. 逃学的孩子 from school are unimaginative /ˌʌnɪ'mædʒɪnətɪv/ adj. 缺乏想像力的.
逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。
2A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get.
他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。
3They have all been put to shame /ʃeɪm/ n. 惭愧，羞耻 by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.
而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。
4He hitchhiked /'hɪtʃhaɪkt/ v. 搭便车旅行 to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.
他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。
5When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime /'miːntaɪm/ n. 其间, travelled to Calais.
第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加来。
6No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
当男孩溜走时，没有一个人注意到他。
7From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry /'lɒri/ n. 卡车.
从那里，他又搭乘一辆卡车到了巴黎。
8The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.
司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他留在了城外。
9The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border /'bɔːdə/ n. 边界.
男孩拦下的下一辆车没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法西边境的佩皮尼昂。
10There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.
在那里，他被一个警察抓住，之后又被当地警方送回了英国。
11He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading /ɪ'veɪdɪŋ/ v. 逃避，逃离 school.
他确实为成千上万梦想逃学的孩子创下了一项纪录。
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