半夏D的ScalersTalk第七轮新概念朗读持续力训练 Day9 20211226

练习材料：

Lesson73    The record-holder

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, traveled 1900 miles. He hitch- hiked 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, traveled to Calais.No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitch-hiked 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.

任务配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：

truant  /ˈtru(ː)ənt/ n. 旷课，逃学

play truant 逃学，逃课，旷课

unimaginative /ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv/ adj. 缺乏想象力的；无趣的

put to shame by sb/sth 因...而羞愧

hitch-hike /hɪʧ/- /haɪkt/ v. 免费搭便车

Dover  /ˈdʌvər/

Calais  /ˈkæleɪ/ （法国城市）加莱

creep /krɛpt/ v. 爬行，匍匐

lorry /ˈlɒri/ .n.卡车，货运汽车

Perpignan /pə'pignən/ 佩皮尼昂

border /ˈbɔːdə/ n.边境，国界

authority n. 当局，官方

evade /ɪˈveɪd/ v. 逃避，回避，规避

练习感悟：

authority 是从开始任务以来第二次出现在短文了，意思和上篇不一样，上次是权威机构和专业机构的意思。

笔记里除了地名，今天记录的都是完全陌生的单词。

今天也坚持下来了，明天加油！