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Lesson73 The record-holder
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, traveled 1600 miles. He hitch- hiked 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, traveled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitch-hiked 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.
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ˈʧɪldrən huː pleɪ ˈtru(ː)ənt frɒm skuːl ɑːr ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv. ə ˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔːr eɪt ˈaʊəz ɪn ə ˈsɪnəmə ˈsiːɪŋ ðə seɪm fɪlmˈəʊvər ænd ˈəʊvər əˈgɛn, ɪz ˈjuːʒʊəli æz fɑːr æz ðeɪ gɛt. ðeɪ hæv ɔːl biːn pʊt tuː ʃeɪm baɪ ə bɔɪ huː, waɪl ˈpleɪɪŋˈtru(ː)ənt, ˈtrævld 1600 maɪlz. hiː hɪʧ- haɪkt tuː ˈdʌvər ænd, təˈwɔːdz ˈiːvnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntuː ə bəʊt tuː faɪnd ˈsʌmweə tuː sliːp. wɛnhiː wəʊk ʌp nɛkst ˈmɔːnɪŋ, hiː dɪsˈkʌvəd ðæt ðə bəʊt hæd, ɪn ðə ˈmiːnˈtaɪm, ˈtrævld tuː ˈkæleɪ. nəʊ wʌn ˈnəʊtɪst ðə bɔɪ æz hiːkrɛpt ɒf. frɒm ðeə, hiː ˈhɪʧhaɪkt tuː ˈpærɪs ɪn ə ˈlɒri. ðə ˈdraɪvə geɪv hɪm ə fjuː ˈbɪskɪts ænd ə kʌp ɒv ˈkɒfi ænd lɛft hɪm ʤʌstˌaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈsɪti. ðə nɛkst kɑː ðə bɔɪ stɒpt dɪd nɒt teɪk hɪm ˈɪntuː ðə ˈsɛntər ɒv ˈpærɪs æz hiː həʊpt ɪt wʊd, bʌt tuː Perpignan ɒnðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃ ˈbɔːdə. ðeə hiː wɒz pɪkt ʌp baɪ ə pəˈliːsmən ænd sɛnt bæk tuː ˈɪŋglənd baɪ ðə ˈləʊkəl ɔːˈθɒrɪtiz. hiː hæz ˈʃʊəlisɛt ʌp ə ˈrɛkɔːd fɔː ðə ˈθaʊzəndz ɒv ˈʧɪldrən huː driːm ɒv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skuːl.
任务配置：L0+L4
笔记：truant逃学的孩子，hitchhike搭便车的旅行，in the meantime在此期间，lorry卡车，border边界，evade逃避、逃离。
感悟：多做一点，收获一点，多成长一点。
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