Lesson 73 The record-holder

 ·单词

record-holder    纪录保持者

    ·hold/keep a record    保持记录

    ·break a record    打破纪录

truant n.    逃学的孩子

    ·play v.    扮演

    ·play truant    扮演逃学的孩子（逃学）

umimaginative adj.    缺乏想象力的

    ·imagine v.    想象

    ·imagination n.    想象，想象力

    ·imaginative adj.    富有想象力的

shame n.    羞愧，羞耻

    ·What a shame!

    ·put sb. to shame    使某人感到羞愧

hitchhike v.    搭便车旅行

meantime n.    期间

    ·in the meantime    在那个期间，与此同时

    ·meanwhile adv.    同时，期间

lorry n.    卡车

border n.    边界

evade v.    逃避，逃离

    ·evade school    逃学

·本课句型

复习简单句/并列句/复合句

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.

    ·... fishing ... is usually as far as they get.

        ·... fishing, or seeing the film ... is usually as far as they get.    增加一个别的动名词，看电影

            ·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.    加入形容词修饰名词和副词修饰句子

    ·as ... as    同级比较

        ·as far as they get    和他们能到达的最大程度一样

·课文

    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 boys who dream of evading school.

play truant    逃学

as far as they get    他们顶多到这种程度而已

    ·as far as    到 ... 程度

They have all been put to shame …    被动语态

    ·put sb.to shame    使某人感到羞愧,使 … 黯然失色

They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.

    ·while playing truant    插入语

in the meantime    在此期间（在句中也是插入语）

as he crept off    当他蹑手蹑脚地离开时

    ·as    当 ... 的时候

The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would. 

    ·the boy stopped    定语从句，这男孩停下来的下一辆车

    ·as he hoped it would    方式状语从句，像 ... 那样，本句是像他希望的那样

        ·as he hoped (that) it would (take him into the centre of Paris)

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

    ·set up a record    创造纪录

    ·thousands of    成千上万

    ·dream of    梦想

    ·evading school    逃学 

·知识拓展

连接句子的练习

The climbers reached the top of the mountain.        They spent the night there.

用 (not only …. but …. as well)

    ·The climbers not only reached the top of the mountain but (they，相同的主语省略) spent the night there as well.

He gave me a fright.        I knocked the teapot over.

用 (such ... that)    而 such 和 so 的区别是，such 接名词或名词词组，so 接形容词和副词

    ·He give me a such fright that I knocked the teapot over.

A fire broke out in the cinema.        Several hundred people tried to leave the building.        A number of them were injured.

用 (when…. and)

    ·When a fire broke out in the cinema, several hundred people tried to leave the building and a number of them were injured.

James Sullivan will give a lecture at the local library.        His book on the Antarctic was published recently.

用 (whose)

James Sullivan, whose book on the Antarctic was published recently, will give a lecture at the local library.