Lesson 73 The record-holder
Lesson 73 The record-holder
中文
纪录保持者
逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。
他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。
而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。
他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。
第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加莱。
当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现他。
从那里他又搭上卡车到了巴黎。
司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在了城外。
男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。
他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国。
他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。
英文
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative [ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv].
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 1600 miles.
He hitchhiked [ˈhɪtʃhaɪkt] to Dover [ˈdəʊvə(r)] and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.
When he woke up next morning, he discovered [dɪˈskʌvəd] that the boat had, in the meantime, traveled to Calais [ˈkæleɪ].
No one noticed [ˈnəʊtɪst] the boy as he crept off.
From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry [ˈlɒri].
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 [ˈsentə(r)] of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border.
There he was picked [pɪkt] 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 [ɪˈveɪdɪŋ] school.
分析
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.
- complex sentence:
- Children are unimaginative
- Children
[subject] - are
[be verb] - unimaginative
[predicative][adjective]
- Children
- who play truant from school
[attributive clause]- who
[subject] - play
[link verb] - truant
[predicative] - from school
[adverbial]
- who
- Children 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.
- simple sentence:
- eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again
- eight hours in a cinema
- seeing the same file over and over again
[attributive]=> cinema
- A quiet day's fishing
- is
[be verb] - usually as far as they get
[predicative]
- eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again
They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant , travelled 1600 miles.
- complex sentence:
- they have all been put to shame by a boy
- they
[subject] - have been put
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - all
[adverbial] - to shame
[prepositional object phrase] - by a boy
[adverbial of manner]
- they
- who, while playing truant, travelled 1600 miles.
- while playing truant
[doing as adverbial] - who
[subject] - travelled
[predicate verb phrase] - 1600 miles
[object]
- while playing truant
- they have all been put to shame by a boy
- knowledge:
- put sb. to shame 使某人感到羞愧；使....黯然失色
- 分词短语做状语，相当于一个状语从句： while he was playing truant
He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.
- compound sentence:
- He hitchhiked to Dover
- He
[subject] - hitchhiked
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - to Dover
[adverbial of purpose]
- He
- towards evening
- and
- He went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep
- He
[subject] - went into
[predicate verb phrase] - a boat
[object] - to find somewhere
[adverbial of purpose] - to sleep
[adverbial of purpose]
- He
- He hitchhiked to Dover
When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais .
- complex sentence:
- When he woke up next morning
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - he
[subject] - woke up
[predicate verb phrase] - next morning
[adverbial]
- when + clause
- he discovered that the boat had travelled to Calais
- he
[subject] - discovered
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - that + clause
[object clause]- the boat had travelled to Calais
- the boat
[subject] - had travelled
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - to Calais
[prepositional object phrase]
- the boat
- the boat had travelled to Calais
- he
- When he woke up next morning
No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
- complex sentence:
- No one noticed the boy
- as he crept off
From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry .
- simple sentence:
- From there
[adverbial of place] - he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry
- he
[subject] - hitchhiked {介宾结构}
[predicate verb phrase] - to Paris
[prepositional object phrase] - in a lorry
[adverbial] of manner
- he
- From there
The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.
- compound sentence:
- The driver gave him a few biscuits
- The driver give him a cup of coffee
- The driver 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 .
- simple sentence:
- the next car the boy stopped
[subject]- the boy stopped
[attributive clause]=> the next car
- the boy stopped
- did not take ... into ...
[predicate verb phrase] - him
[direct object] - the centre of Paris
[prepositional object phrase] - as he hoped it would
[adverbial clause]- he
[subject] - hoped
[predicate verb phrase] - it would
[object clause]
- he
- the next car the boy stopped
There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities .
- compound sentence:
- There
[adverbial of place] - he was picked up by a policeman
- he
[subject] - was picked up
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - by a policeman
[adverbial of manner]
- he
- he was sent back to England by the local authorities
- he
[subject] - was sent back
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - to England
[adverbial of purpose] - by the local authorities
[adverbial of accompany]
- he
- There
He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.
- complex sentence:
- He
[subject] - has set up
[predicate verb phrase] - a record
[object] - for the thousands of children who dream of evading school
[adverbial]- for the thousands of children
- who dream of evading school
[attributive clause]=> the thousands of children.- who
[subject] - dream of
[predicate verb phrase] - evading school
[object]
- who
- He
- be put to shame 被弄得很丢脸
- meanwhile = in the meantime
- as far as they get 他们顶多到这种程度
- as far as 到什么的程度