Lesson 73: The record-holder
纪录保持者

Key words and expressions

• record-holder 纪录保持者
• play truant 逃学
• unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的 /ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv/
• shame 惭愧，羞耻
• evade 逃避，逃离
• hitchhike 搭便车旅行
• in the meantime 与此同时
• lorry 卡车
• border 边界

im·agina·tive adj.   /ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv/
having or showing new and exciting ideas富于想象力的；创新的
SYN inventive
•an imaginative approach/idea/child有创意的方法╱思想╱孩子
•recipes that make imaginative use of seasonal vegetables妙用时令蔬菜的菜谱
OPP unimaginative

tru·ant n.   /ˈtruːənt/
a child who stays away from school without permission旷课的小学生

Questions on the text

1. How far did the boy travel while playing truant?
   1. He travelled 1600 miles.
2. Where did he go first and how did he get there?
   1. He first go by hitchhiking.???
3. Where was he when he woke up the next morning?
   1. He was in Calais.
4. How did he get back to England in the end?
   1. He was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.

Language points

1. unimaginative: un + imaginative

   1. happy/unhappy
   2. able/unable
   3. acceptable/unacceptable

2. 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.

   1. as far as 能够达到的程度；就。。。而言
      1. He has a reasonable similarity to you, at least as far as the head and face is concerned.他和你有一定的相似之处，至少在头和脸方面是这样。
      2. I’m not really perceptive as far as literature goes, I much prefer history.就文学而言，我不是很有洞察力，我更喜欢历史。

3. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.一个男孩在逃学期间跑了1600英里，这让他们都相形见绌。

   1. 现在完成时
   2. 被动语态

4. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.

   1. int the meantime 与此同时
      1. His cave won’t come to court for several months, and in the meantime more than half the people think him quilty.
      2. At long last we were released. In the meantime of course, our friends had informed the newspapers.我们终于被释放了。当然，在此期间，我们的朋友已经通知了报纸。

5. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.

   1. pick up
      1. 把某物拾起来
         1. The telephone rang and Judy picked it up.
      2. 到某处接人
         1. I might get my brother to come and pick me up.
      3. 拘捕
         1. He was picked up by government agents for questioning.

6. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.

   1. thousands of 成千上万的
   2. tens of 成十上百的
   3. hundreds of
   4. millions of
   5. billions of

Key structures and usage

简单句、并列句、复合句小结

1. 定语从句（attributive clause）
   1. Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.
   2. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, traveled 1,600 miles.
2. 状语从句（adverbial clause）
3. 宾语从句（object clause）
   1. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, traveled to Calais.
      1. when … 时间状语从句
      2. the boat … discovered 的宾语
   2. No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
      1. as … 时间状语从句

Extension