逃学男孩创下1600英里旅行纪录

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Lesson 73 The Record Holder Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. 逃学的孩子通常缺乏想象力。

A quiet day's fishing or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film 他们最多也就是安静地钓一天鱼，或者在电影院待八个小时反复看同一部电影。

over and over again is usually as far as they get. 仅此而已。

They have all been put to shame by a boy who, 但有个男孩让他们都自愧不如，

while playing truant, 他在逃学期间，

travelled 1,600 miles. 竟然跑了1600英里。

He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, 他搭便车到了多佛，傍晚时分，

went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. 钻进一艘船里找地方睡觉。

When he woke up next morning, 第二天早上醒来，

he discovered that the boat had, 发现船在这段时间里，

in the meantime, 已经开到了加来。

travelled to Calais. 没人注意到他偷偷溜下船。

No one noticed the boy as he crept off. 从那儿，

From there, 他又搭了辆卡车到了巴黎。

he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. 司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，然后把他丢在了城外。

The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. 他拦下的下一辆车没像他希望的那样带他去巴黎市中心，

The next car the boys stopped would not take him 而是把他带到了法西边境的帕皮农。

into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, 在那儿，

but to Papignon on the French-Spanish border. 他被警察逮住，由当地政府送回了英国。

There, 他肯定给成千上万梦想逃学的孩子们创下了纪录。

he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. 他被一个警察逮着了，然后当地政府把他遣送回了英国。

He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school. 他肯定创下了纪录，让成千上万梦想逃学的孩子望尘莫及。