新概念英语第二册Lesson73 The record-holderLesson 73 The record-holder 纪录保持者First listen and then answer the question.听录音，然后回答以下问题。
Did the boy go where he wanted to?Children who play truant1 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 meantime3, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept4 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 toEngland by the local authorities5. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading6 school.New words and expressions 生词和短语record-holder 纪录保持者truant n. 逃学的孩子unimaginative adj. 缺乏想像力的shame n. 惭愧，羞耻hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行meantime n. 其间lorry n. 卡车border n. 边界evade7 v. 逃避，逃离参考译文逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。
新概念第二册lesson73Lesson 73 The record-holder【New words and expressions】(9)★record-holder 纪录保持者n.+ v.+ er 构词法tennis player★truant 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)play hooky 逃学(美)evade school 逃学be absent from classon purpose 逃学★unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的imagine v. 想象，设想imaginative adj. 有想象力的imagination n. 想象力-tive 一般是形容词的后缀；-tion 一般是名词后缀★shame n. 惭愧，羞耻What a shame! 真可耻！Shame on you! 替你感到可耻！shameful adj. 令人羞愧ashamed adj. 感到羞愧put sb. 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。
)You put me to shame. (你比我好的意思)put sb. to trouble 给某人带来麻烦★hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行hitchhiker n. 搭便车的人hitchhike = take a lift 搭便车★meantime n. 其间in the meantime = meanwhile 与此同时★evade ①vt.(巧妙地)逃脱，躲开She evaded a blow from the man and then called out forhelp.②vt. 回避，逃避(尤指不当地)evade doing sth. 逃避做……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 指通过欺骗的手段来避免做某事。
