新概念英語第二冊逐句精講語言點 第73課(1)

　　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：

　　1、Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.

　　逃學(xué)的孩子們都缺乏想像力。

　　語言點 who play truant from school是children的定語從句，主句核心結(jié)構(gòu)是Children are unimaginative.

　　2、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.

　　他們通?？梢宰龅?，至多也就是安靜地釣上一天魚，或者在電影院里坐上8個小時，反復(fù)地看同一部電影。

　　語言點 is是這個句子的真正謂語;as they get是比較狀語從句。

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

　　而有這么一個小男孩，他在逃學(xué)期間旅行了 1600英里，從而使上述所有逃學(xué)的孩子們 都相形見絀了。

　　語言點 put sb. to shame使某人相形見礎(chǔ)。

　　4、He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.

　　他搭便車到了多佛，天快黑時鉆進了一條船，想找個地方睡覺。