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5.5 Children’s Education 子女教育

W: Tommy played truant today. His teacher called me this morning.

M: Where did he go?

W: I've asked him, but he won't tell me. What should we do about this? He is like you. I remember when we were at the college, you always skipped classes.

M: Like me? But you see I am so successful now. And if he is really like me, he will be more successful than me in the future.

W: Stop, stop… We are talking about our son's attendance for classes and his study. Maybe we could give him a little bit money to pay to go to school.

M: Pay him? But he studies for himself, not for you or for me or for anybody else. I got an idea. You should send him to class every morning and after the class begins, you can go to work.

W: In that way, I'll be late every day. How about letting him go to school on school bus?

M: That's a good idea. Why have I never thought of that?

W: That's because I went to school for each class when I was at school. So now I am much more clever than you.

譯：

W：湯米今天逃課了，他的老師早上打電話給我了。

M：他去了哪里？

W：我問過他了，但是他不愿告訴我。對此，我們該怎么辦？他和你一樣，我記得我們上大學的時候你就總是逃課。

M：像我？可是你看，我現(xiàn)在這么成功，如果他像我的話，他將來會更成功的。

W：打住打住，我們現(xiàn)在談的是我們兒子的出勤問題和他的學習，也許我們可以給他點兒錢讓他去上學。

M：他去上課就給他開工資么？他可是為他自己學習，不是為你、為我，也不是為任何人。我有主意了！你可以每天早上送他去學校，等他上課后你再去工作。

W：那樣的話，我每天都會遲到的，讓他坐校車去學校怎么樣？

M：這是個好主意，我怎么就沒想到呢？

W：那是因為我上學的時候每節(jié)課都去，所以現(xiàn)在我比你聰明。

注釋：

“play truant”是固定用法，指“逃學，曠課”。