record-holder n. 记录保持者
The record-holder 纪录保持者
truant n. 旷课者
play truant 逃学
Children who play truant from school 逃学的孩子们
imaginative adj. 富于想象的；有创造力的
unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的；无趣的
are unimaginative 都缺乏想像力
happy adj. 幸福的；高兴的
unhappy adj. 不快乐的；不幸福的
able adj. 能
unable adj. 不会的，不能的
acceptable adj. 可接受的；合意的
unacceptable adj. 不能接受的；不受欢迎的
A quiet day’s fishing 安静地钓上一天鱼
or eight hours in a cinema 或八小时在电影院
seeing the same film over and over again 一遍又一遍地看同一部电影
is usually as far as they get 他们通常能做的就是这些了
as far as 就….而言
reasonable adj. 合理的，公道的
reasonable similarity 合理的相似性
concern vt. 涉及，关系到
he has a reasonable similarity to you,at least as far as the head and face is concerned 他和你还是挺相像的，尤其是就头和脸部而言
perceptive adj. 感知的，知觉的
literature n. 文学；文献
i am not really perceptive as far as literature goes,i must perfer history, 就文学而言,我的感觉并不是特别敏锐,我更喜欢历史.
shame n. 羞耻，羞愧
They have all been put to shame 所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了
by a boy who 有那么一个小男孩
while playing truant 在逃学期间
travelled 1,600 miles 旅行了1，600英里
hitchhike vi. 搭便车
He hitchhiked to Dover and 他搭便车到了多佛
towards evening 傍晚
went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep 钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉
When he woke up next morning 第二天早上他醒来的时候
he discovered that the boat had 他发现那条船已经
in the meantime 在此期间
court n. 法院
think his guilty 认为他有罪
his case won’t come to court for several months,and in the meantime more than half the people think his guilty. 他的案子还要几个月法庭才能受理，与此同时，一半以上的人认为他有罪
at long last we were released ,in the meantime of course,our friends had informed the newspapers. 很久以后我们终于被释放了,与此同时,我们的朋友当然已经通知了报界
Calais n. 加来（法国城市）
travelled to Calais 到了加莱
No one noticed the boy 谁也没有注意到这小孩
crept off 爬离
as he crept off 当男孩从船里爬出来时
From there 从那里
lorry n. （英）卡车
he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry 他搭卡车到巴黎
The driver gave him a few biscuits 司机给了他一些饼干
and a cup of coffee 和一杯咖啡
and left him 就把他丢下
just outside the city 就在城外
The next car the boy stopped 男孩截住的下一辆车
did not take him into the centre of Paris 没有把他带到巴黎市中心
as he hoped it would 像他希望的那样
Perpignan 佩皮尼昂
border n. 边境；
but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border 而是法国和西班牙边境的佩皮尼昂
pick up 把某物从某个地方拾起来
the telephone rang and judy picked it up. 电话铃响了，朱迪接了电话
pick up 到某处去接一个人
i might get my brother to come and pick me up. 我可能会叫我哥哥来接我
pick up 被警察或政府机构拘捕
government agent 政府机关工作人
he was picked up by government agents for questioning . 他被政府机关工作人员带走审问
There he was picked up by a policeman 在那里他被警察找到了
and sent back to England by the local authorities 被地方当局送回英国
He has surely set up a record 他肯定创造了一项记录
for the thousands of children 对于千百个…的孩子
thousands of 成千上万的
tens of 成十上百的
hundreds of 成百上千的
millions of 数百万的
billions of 数亿的
evade vt. 逃避
who dream of evading school. 梦想逃学的这些
