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1. truant n. 

1）truant _______【 听记1】

 A truant is a student who stays away from school on purpose without permission.

长期逃学的学生persistent truants   

2）逃学：play truant = play hooky  

Students who hate school may play truant or play hooky.

现在，在口语中也可以说：skip classes或cut classes

Some studentsoften skip classes and spend their time playing on-line games. 

Straight-A students never cut classes.

2. unimaginative 

adj.缺乏想象力的

来自：imaginative　adj. 富有想象力的

Imaginative people are those who are able to think of or create new and exciting things.

J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, is an imaginative writer.

(= She is a writer with an incredible imagination. )  

Liu Cixin is an imaginative science fiction writer.

The Wandering Earth project is an imaginative idea to save the earth and human civilization in the future.

有创意的想法/方案an imaginative idea/solution 

This imaginative idea deeply reflects one of traditional Chinese values, that is, Chinese people’s attachment to their native land.   

Instead of abandoning the Earth and searching for a new planet, people choose to take the planet with them on the run.

注意：imagine有两个形容词：

imaginary adj.______ 【听记2】

* an imaginary world

imaginative adj.有想象力的

区别：an imaginative child有想象力的孩子

an imaginary child虚构的孩子（The child doesn’t exist in real life.）

3. shame 

n.  羞耻

学习两个常用表达：

用法1： A puts B to shame  

场景1：His unique Halloween costume put ours to shame.

场景2：When the first iPhone was released in2007, it put all the other cellphones to shame.

用法2：shame on sb  

造句：

The guy made a such stupid mistake. But he denied it.

Shame on him! What a shameless person !  

“Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.

Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”

（A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.），

4. hitchhike  

v.搭免费便车

When you hitchhike, you travel by getting free rides from drivers of passing cars.

In most countries in Europe, it is legal to hitchhike and in some places hitchhiking is even encouraged.

Hitchhiking became a common method of traveling during the Great Depression.

Some young people still love to hitchhike around the world.

During the two-month summer vacation, some college students hitchhiked around Europe.

When you want to hitchhike, you are supposed to face the direction of the oncoming（迎面驶来的）car and stick out your thumb.

什么是thumb a ride (lift) ？

We decided to thumb a ride（lift）to Chicago.

We hitched a ride / hitchhiked to Chicago.

5. border n. 

The border between two countries or regions is the line that divides them.

Sometimes the border also refers to the land near this line.

用法： the border between A and B

The small town lies on the border between China and Russia.   

Such a town is called a border town.  

When you cross the border, you will see border guards who secure the border. 

引申用法：

It is difficult to define the border between confidence and conceit.

What is the difference between confidence and conceit ?

Johnny Unitas曾说：

“Conceit is bragging about yourself.

Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.”

The new discoveries are stretching the borders of knowledge

6. evade 

v.  逃离，逃避

词根：vade = to go, walk

同源词：invade:

1） evade:逃避应该做的事

If you evade something, you find a way of not doing something that you are supposed to do or have a responsibility for.

比如：

evade school

evade taxes/ evade paying taxes

evade responsibility / responsibilities(具体的职责)

场景1：

Peter is always trying to evade all responsibility for his behaviour.

Peter , you are not a little kid anymore.

You can’t go on evading your responsibility in this way.

2）回避(问题、话题)

To evade a question or a topic means to avoid talking about it or dealing with it.

场景2：

The president kept evade answering the question.  

Clearly, he was trying to evade the issue.  

区别：avoid  vs  evade

evade 

To evade means to find a way of not doing something you are supposed to do or have a responsibility for.

avoid 

To avoid means to prevent something from happening. You can avoid a bad situation , such as an accident, a mistake, or a misunderstanding.

简单记忆：evade ______，avoid ______【听记3】

比如：     

非法逃税：evade taxes             

合法的避税：legally avoid taxes 

听记答案 

1.可以表示逃学的学生

2.虚构的，想象中的

3.逃避责任；避免坏事