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# 73 · 纪录保持者

### 第1段

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.

中文理解：逃学的孩子通常没什么想象力，顶多安静钓一天鱼，或在电影院里一待八小时，把同一部电影看个没完。不过，一个逃学时跑了一千六百英里的男孩，让他们全都相形见绌。 他搭便车到了多佛，傍晚钻进一条船里找地方睡觉。第二天早上醒来，才发现船已经到了加来。 他悄悄溜下船，没人注意到他。随后又搭上一辆卡车去巴黎。司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，让他在城外下了车。 接下来拦到的车没按他期待的那样带他去巴黎市中心，反而把他带到了法西边境的佩皮尼昂。 在那里，警察发现了他，当地有关部门把他送回英国。他可真替那些梦想逃学的孩子们创了项纪录。

* **play truant**：逃学；truant在固定搭配中不用冠词；play truant from school与skip school意思相近。

* **over and over again**：一遍又一遍；强调反复，again加强重复意味。

* **put to shame**：使相形见绌；本课是被别人比下去，不是单纯感到害羞。

* **in the meantime**：在此期间；连接另一条同时推进的故事线，不表示之后。

* **picked up**：被警察发现并带走；原句是男孩被警察发现后带走处理，不能理解成自己搭便车；也不必据此推断已被正式逮捕。

* **sent back to**：送回到；back说明返回原处，不是第一次送去。

#### Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.

复合句，主句为主系表结构，其中包含一个who 引导的定语从句修饰children，教材认为truant 在此为名词，逃学的孩子，在固定表达 play truant 中，truant 通常按名词或形容词性用法理解；整个短语表示“逃学”，不能因为整体表示动作就把 truant 单独判为动词。 教材翻译不理想，此处并非是这些孩子缺乏想象力，结合下文可 知，是孩子们逃学之后的活动毫无新意.

#### 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.

其实is 前面一整个部分都可以视作主语，只不过主语带有一些定语和状语作为修饰成分，即便删去也不影响钓鱼和去电影院这两个逃学活动.

they get 在这里作表语从句，they get 已经是完整的主谓句子了.

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

复合句，主句 They have all been put to shame 是被动结构，没有主动意义的直接宾语；who 引导定语从句修饰 a boy，travelled 1,600 miles 中 1,600 miles 表示距离。 定语从句中，现在分词短语作状语，可转为状语从句：\[while he was playing truant,].

“相形见绌”表示比较之下显出不足，并不限于好品格的比较。此处用于其他逃学孩子与这位男孩的冒险相比，能传达 put to shame 带有调侃意味的反差，不宜直接判为误译。

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

并列句，均为主谓结构，后一句省略了主语. 动词不定式短语to find somewhere 本身，somewhere 可以看作是find 的宾语，后面一个动词不定式to sleep 作定语来修饰这个somewhere 就更容易理解.

#### When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.

复合句，一开始是when 引导的时间状语从句，该从句为主谓结构；接着是主句，主谓 + 宾语从句，that 引导的从句作discover 的宾语. 该宾语从句为主谓结构.

\[语法符号讲解]在that 前一个空格就开始画横线，到“th”下，表示这是宾语从句的开始，在最后一个单词Calais 的“lais.”下画横线，点句号也要画上，表示宾语从句的结束.

#### No one noticed the boy as he crept off.

复合句，主句主谓宾结构，as 引导的时间状语从句为主谓结构.

#### The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.

并列句，两句都是主谓宾结构，以第二个and 连接. 第一句为give 接双宾语结构，其中sth.物为直接宾语，相当于给了什么东西，所以这个东西是直接的宾语，而这个东西给了sb.人，这个拿到该物的人是间接宾语.

#### 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.

复合句，本句为本篇最为复杂的句子. the boy stopped 是定语从句，省略的 that 指 car，作 stopped 的宾语，修饰car；而主句是主谓宾结构，该句包含介词短语作地点状语into the centre of Paris，后跟一个as 引导的方式状语从句，as he hoped it would，而该从句中，又包含 一个宾语从句作为hope 的宾语，该宾语从句为省略句，仅it would 两个词，还原为\[as he hoped that it would take him \[into the centre of Paris].]

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

复合句，主句为主谓宾结构，后面有一个who 引导的定语从句修饰children，该从句为主谓宾结构.

## 学完这一课

先沿这条线复述《纪录保持者》：不寻常的逃学纪录 → 从多佛到了加来 → 继续搭车去巴黎 → 下一程却去了边境 → 被送回国，也创下纪录。再借一个结构讲自己的事：先用短句介绍本课一个对象，再用关系从句补上识别它的重要细节。

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