新概念英語第二冊逐句精講語言點 第73課(3)

　　Lesson 73 The record-holder 紀錄保持者

　　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.

　　句子講解：

　　9、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.

　　男孩攔住的下一輛車，沒有像他希望的那樣把他帶到巴黎市中心，而是把他帶到了法 國和西班牙邊界上的佩皮尼昂。

　　語言點 as he hoped it would 在此是指“像男孩希望去的地方”。

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

　　他在那兒被警察抓住了，之后被當局送回了英國。

　　語言點 be picked up by sb.被某人抓住了

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

　　他無疑為成千上萬夢想逃避上學的孩子們創(chuàng)造了一項紀錄。