The record-holder

【課文】

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.

【課文翻譯】

逃學的孩子們都缺乏想像力。他們通常能夠做到的，至多也就是安靜地釣上一天魚，或在電影院里坐上8個小時，一遍遍地看同一部電影。而有那么一個小男孩，他在逃學期間旅行了1,600英里，從而使上述所有逃學的孩子們都相形見絀了。他搭便車到了多佛，天快黑時鉆進了一條船，想找個地方睡覺。第二天早上他醒來時，發(fā)現(xiàn)船在這段時間已經(jīng)到了加。當男孩從船里爬出來時，誰也沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)他。從那里他又搭上卡車到了巴黎。司機給了他幾塊餅干和一杯咖啡，就把他丟在了城外。男孩截住的下一輛車，沒有像他希望的那樣把他帶到巴黎市中心，而是把他帶到了法國和西班牙邊界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那兒被一個警察抓住了，之后被當局送回了英國。他無疑為成千上萬夢想逃避上學的孩子們創(chuàng)造了一項紀錄。

【生詞匯總】

record-holder 紀錄保持者

truant n. 逃學的孩子

unimaginative adj. 缺乏想像力的

shame n. 慚愧，羞恥

hitchhike v. 搭便車旅行

meantime n. 其間

lorry n. 卡車

border n. 邊界

evade v. 逃避，逃離

【知識點講解】

1，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.

動詞ing前面如果出現(xiàn)定語，若是名詞，則采用名詞所有格或名詞短語本身。

eight hours' seeing the film

非謂語動詞做主語，一律作單數(shù)看。

Three hours in the room，It is tiring.

Three hours(') listening to the teacher is tiring.

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

while 引導時間狀語從句，一般放在前面或后面，放在中間就加上逗號。while doing 省略句，省略了主語和be 動詞，這個主語一定就是主句的主語。

put…to shame 使……蒙羞，使……相形見絀

What he has done put his parents to shame.

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