文档介绍：新概念英语第二册笔记新版:第73课
【New words and expressions】（9）
record-holder 纪录保持者
truant n. 逃学的孩子
unimaginative inative. 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.
参考译文
逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是宁静地钓上一天鱼，或在电*里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述全部逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。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。其次天早上他醒来时，发觉船在这段时间已经到了加。当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发觉他。从那里他又搭上卡车到了巴黎。司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在了城外。男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他盼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。他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被*送回了英国。他无疑为成千上万幻想躲避上学的孩子们制造了一项纪录。
【课文讲解】
1、Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.
play truant from school = play truant 逃学
As a boy, Tom used to play truant (from school).
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.
动词ing前面假如消失定语，若是名词，则采纳名词全部格或名词短语本身。
eight hours” seeing the film
非谓语动词做主语，一律作单数看。
Three hours in the room，It is tiring.
Three hours(”) listening to the teacher is tiring.
Three hours in the ro