Lesson 73 The record-holder 纪录保持者

　　Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A 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. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles. He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. The 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. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.

　　句子讲解：

　　1、Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.

　　逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。

　　语言点 who play truant from school是children的定语从句，主句核心结构是Children are unimaginative.

　　2、A 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.

　　他们通常可以做的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或者在电影院里坐上8个小时，反复地看同一部电影。

　　语言点 is是这个句子的真正谓语;as they get是比较状语从句。

　　3、They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.

　　而有这么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了 1600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们 都相形见绌了。

　　语言点 put sb. to shame使某人相形见础。

　　4、He hitchhiked 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。