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record-holder 纪录保持者
tennis player
story teller

truant n. 逃学的孩子 逃学 v.逃学
I found the truant throwing stones in the river.
我发现那个逃学的孩子在往河里扔石子。
play truant 逃学
She was getting into trouble over playing truant from school.
她因逃课而惹了麻烦。
How dared you to play truant!
你竟敢逃学。
My father gave me a thick ear when he heard I'd been playing truant.
我父亲知道我一直逃学时，打了我一记耳光。
A number of pupils have been truanting regularly.
不少小学生一直经常旷课。


unimaginative adj. 缺乏想像力的
imagine v.
I can't imagine life without the children now.
我现在无法设想没有了孩子们的生活。
imaginative adj.
The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.
这所房子总是摆放着富有创意的插花。


shame n. 惭愧，羞耻 遗憾的事情 v. 使羞耻
shame on you/her/him.
His face burned with shame.
他的脸因羞愧而发烫。
What a shame they couldn't come.
他们不能来了，真是遗憾。
You have shamed your family.
你使你的家庭蒙受了耻辱。


hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行


meantime n. 其间
I'll contact them soon. Meantime don't tell them I'm back.
我会尽快和他们联系。在此期间，不要告诉他们我回来了

for the meantime 眼下 暂时
I'm changing my email address but for the meantime you can use the old one.
我要更换电邮地址，不过那个旧的暂时也还可以用。

in the meantime 期间 同时
My first novel was rejected by six publishers. In the meantime I had written a play.
我的第一部小说遭到六家出版商的拒绝。其间我又完成了一部戏剧。


lorry n. 卡车
truck


border n. 边界
Denmark's border with Germany
丹麦和德国的国界线


evade v. 逃避，逃离
He managed to evade capture .
他设法逃脱了抓捕。
to evade answering a question
避而不答某一问题



1、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.
over and over again = again and again 一次又一次，一再地，反复许多次地
as far as 最大程度…… 到……程度，就……而言

2、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.
take … into 带到……
not…but… 不是……而是……