Lesson 73 The record-holder纪录保持者Did the boy go where he wanted to?Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.A quiet days fishing,or eight hoursin a cinema seeing the same film over and over again,is usually as far as they get.They have allbeen put to shame by a boy who,while playing truant,travelled 1,600 miles.He hitchhiked toDover and,towards evening,went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.When he woke upnext morning,he discovered that the boat had,in the meantime,travelled to Calais.N o onenoticed the boy as he crept off.From there,he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry.The driver gave him afew biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.The next car the boy stoppeddid not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would,but to Perpignan on theFrench-Spanish border.There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by thelocal authorities.He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream ofevading school.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细了他搭便车到了丹佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间1经到了加当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现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他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国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N ew words and expressions 生词与短语：1 record-holder rek:dh uld 纪录保持者2 truant*tru:nt n.逃学的孩子3 unimaginative!nimaed in tiva.缺乏想象力的4 shame eim n.惭愧，羞耻5 hitchhike hit haik v.搭便车旅行6 meantime mi:ntaim n.其间7 lorry I ri n.卡车8 border*b:d n.边界9 evade iveid v.逃避，逃离 record-holder纪录保持者n.+v.+er构词法tennis playertruant n.逃学的孩子，逃学者The three boys who are fishing over there are truants and ought to be sent back to school,play truant 逃学（英）the boy who played truant 逃学的孩子play hooky 逃学（美）evade school 逃学be absent from class unpurposive 逃学（unpurposive adv.故意的）He did it unpurposive.unimaginative adj.缺乏想象力的imagine v.想象，设想 imaginativeadj.有想象力的She is an imaginative painter.她是一个富有想象力的画家。
Painters should be imaginative.画家应该富有想象力imagination n.想象力-tive 一般是形容词后缀shamen.惭愧，羞耻-tion 一般是名词后缀What a shame!真可耻!shamefuladj.令人羞愧put somebody to shame让某人感到羞愧对别人赞美的回答：Thank you.You are flattering me.你过奖了put somebody to trouble给某人带来麻烦hitchhike v,搭便车旅行hitchhike=take a lift 搭便车meantime n.其间in the meantime=meanwhile 与此同时Shame on you!替你感到可耻!ashamed adj.感到羞愧You put me to shame.你比我好hitchhiker n.搭便车的人lorry n.（英）卡车；车辆货车;运料车（美 truck）His bicycle collided with a lorry.他的自行车撞在一辆卡车上M y car buckled up when it struck the lorry.我的汽车撞上了运货卡车后毁坏了。
They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver他们想尽各种方法掩盖他们曾抢劫过一名卡车司机的事实border n.边界on the border of在的边界上；将要，濒于Enemy troops raided our border areas.敌军对我边境地区进行袭击The police detained the suspect at the border.警察把那名嫌疑犯扣留在边境At last the engine of my car sputtered out on the way to the border,在开往边境的路 上,我的汽车发动机发出爆裂声后熄掉了evade V.逃避；规避；逃脱vt.巧妙地逃脱，躲开She evaded a blow from the man and then called out for help.她躲过那男的痛击，然后喊救命They ran after the thief quickly,but the thief managed to evade them.他们迅速追赶小偷,但小偷设法逃脱了。
vt.回避，逃避尤指不当地evade doing something 逃避做某事He always tries to evade paying taxes.他总是试图逃避纳税M any children dream of evading school.许多孩子梦想逃学avoid v.逃避，逃离,避免avoid指通过一种合理的，正当的手段来避免做某事；evade指通过欺骗手段来避免做某事tax avoidance 避税 tax evasion 逃税【课文讲解】1、Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.play truant from school/play truant 逃学(同义词短语 evade school)play truant from school 逃学，上下文清楚时也可以省略 from school,直接说 play truant;truant也表示“逃学者”As a boy,Tom used to play truant(from school).汤姆小时候常逃学The three boys who are fishing over there are truants8 and ought to be sent back to school.刃 B边那 3 个钓鱼的孩子都是逃学者，应当被送回学校。
unimaginative的反义词为imaginative（富于想象力的，爱想象的）He is an imaginative painter.他是位富有想象力的画家Painters should be imaginative.画家应当富于想象力2、A quiet days fishing,or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again,isusually as far as they get.时间名词作定语，直接在其后面用，s 所有格形式：a quiet days fishing安静地钓上一天鱼a quiet day*s fishing,or eight hours*seeing the film 非谓语动词为动名词做主语,每个动名词短语分别看作单数，用r 并列这两个成分做主语，根据就近原则，动词谓语用单数而 a quietdays为所有格形式限制动名词fishing,eight hours为动名词seeing的通格形式，也可以用所有格eight hours，形式Three hours in the roomis tiring.在房间里三个小时是累人的。
Three hours listening to the teacher is tiring.听老师讲三个小时是累人的Three hours in the room listening to the teacher is tiring.在房间里三个小时听老师讲是累人的Events such as the March 5th shooting at a high school in San Diego bring the problem into focus.比如三月五日圣地亚哥一所高中学校发生的枪击事件问题成为焦点over and over again一再地、反复许多次地类似短语：over and over;over well as over;time and again;again and again;repeatedly 等As my grandmother cant hear very well,I had to say it over and over again.由于我奶奶听力不大好，我不得不反复说好几遍as far as到程度、就而言，是连词，与距离没有关系：As for as I know,his operation is successful.就我所知，他的手术是成功的。
3、They have all been put to shame by a boy who,while playing truant,travelled 1,600 miles.现在分词短语while playing truant,相当于时间状语从句while he was playing truant的省略定语从句who traveled 1,600 miles被表示时间的现在分词短语while playing truant隔开了put to shame使蒙羞，使相形见细What he has done puts his parents 。