The Record-Holder

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Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.

逃学的孩子都缺乏想象力。

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A quiet days' fishing,

安静地钓上一天鱼，

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or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get.

或者在电影院里看8小时的同一部电影，这通常是他们能做到的最大限度了。

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

然而，一个逃学竟走了1600英里的孩子使他们都相形见绌了。

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

他搭便车到了多佛，傍晚时分进了一条船想找个地方睡觉。

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

第二天早晨醒来时，他发现那条船已行驶到加来。

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No one noticed the boy as he crept off.

他悄悄溜下船时没人注意到他。

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From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry.

从那里，他又搭上一辆卡车去了巴黎。

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

司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，在城外把他放下了。

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The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would,

男孩拦的下一辆车并没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，

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but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border.

而是带到了法国和西班牙边境上的佩皮尼昂。

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There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.

在那里他被一个警察发现，然后当地政府把他遣送回了英国。

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

他无疑为成千上万梦想逃学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。