新概念2册第73课

学乐教育2015寒假八年级英语VIP辅导讲义

Lesson 73 The record-holder 纪录保持着

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 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.

参考译文

逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加。当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现他。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，没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国。他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。

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

evade v. 逃避，逃离

一．词汇学习

1. record-holder n.记录保持着

record [ ] n. 记录

set up/make/create a record创造记录

hold a record 保持记录

break/beat a record

record [ ]v. 记录

eg. If you talk in class, I will record your name.

2. truant n. 逃学的孩子

truancy n. 逃学

play truant=evade school 逃学

3. unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的（反 imaginative）imagine v. 想象

imagine sth/doing sth. /that 想象做….

Eg. Don’t you imagine that I can lend you money every time? imaginary adj. 想象中的，不真实的

imaginable adj. 可想象的

imagination n. 想象力，想象的事物

4. shame

1)un. 惭愧，羞耻

put sb. to shame 使..感到惭愧，使…黯然失色

eg. Cinderella’s beauty put her sisters to shame.

2)cn. 遗憾的事，可惜

eg. What a shame that you have to leave!

3)cn. 耻辱，可耻之事 eg. Shame!/Shame on you!

to one’s shame令某人感到羞耻的是

eg. To my shame, I made a mistake again.

shameful adj. 可耻的，让人丢脸的（主语常为物）—shamefully adv. shameless adj. 厚颜无耻的，不要脸的---shamelessly adv.

ashamed adj. 丢脸的（主语常为人）

5. hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行

hitchhike to sp. 搭车到…eg.

Can I hitch to Paris?

hitch v. 搭便车

hitchhiker n. 搭车者

6. meantime

1)n. 其间 in the meantime 在此期间，与此同时

eg. In the meantime, we studied Lesson 72.

2)adv. =meanwhile

eg. I continued watching TV. Meantime, I did some washing.

7. border

1)边界，国界

the French-Spanish border法国-西班牙边界

border land边疆

border line国境线

2）v.和..接壤

eg. Chine borders Vetnam.

8. evade v. 逃避，逃离