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：

　　9、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.

　　男孩拦住的下一辆车，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 国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。

　　语言点 as he hoped it would 在此是指“像男孩希望去的地方”。

　　10、There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.

　　他在那儿被警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国。

　　语言点 be picked up by sb.被某人抓住了

　　11. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.

　　他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。