新概念英语第二册73

73 The record-holder纪录保持着 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. 逃学的孩子是缺乏想象力的。安静地钓一天的鱼，或八小时在电影院看同一部电影一遍又一遍，是他们通常能够做到。他们都感到羞愧的一个男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1600英里。他搭便车到了多佛尔，傍晚，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，在这期间，已经到了加来。没有人注意到那个男孩当他爬出来时。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把他带到巴黎市中心，像他希望的那样，但到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那儿被警察送回英国由地方当局。他肯定已经创造了一个记录为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们。