Lesson 73 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 1600 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.
ˈlɛsn 73 ðə ˈrɛkɔːd-ˈhəʊldə
ˈʧɪldrən huː pleɪ ˈtru(ː)ənt frəm skuːl ər ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv.
ə ˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔːr eɪt ˈaʊəz ɪn ə ˈsɪnəmə ˈsiːɪŋ ðə seɪm fɪlmˈəʊvər ənd ˈəʊvər əˈgɛn, ɪz ˈjuːʒʊəli əz fɑːr əz ðeɪ gɛt.
ðeɪ həv ɔːl biːn pʊt tə ʃeɪm baɪ ə bɔɪ huː, waɪl ˈpleɪɪŋˈtru(ː)ənt, ˈtrævld 1600 maɪlz.
hi hɪʧ- haɪkt tə ˈdʌvər ænd, təˈwɔːdz ˈiːvnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntə ə bəʊt tə faɪnd ˈsʌm weə tə sliːp.
wɛn hiwəʊk ʌp nɛkst ˈmɔːnɪŋ, hi dɪsˈkʌvəd ðət ðə bəʊt hæd, ɪn ðə ˈmiːnˈtaɪm, ˈtrævld tə ˈkæleɪ.
nəʊ wʌn ˈnəʊtɪst ðə bɔɪ əz hi krɛpt ɒf.
frəm ðeə, hi ˈhɪʧhaɪkt tə ˈpærɪs ɪn ə ˈlɒri.
ðə ˈdraɪvə geɪv ɪm ə fjuː ˈbɪskɪts ənd ə kʌp əv ˈkɒfi ənd lɛft ɪm ʤəst ˌaʊtˈsaɪd ðəˈsɪti.
ðə nɛkst kɑː ðə bɔɪ stɒpt dɪd nɒt teɪk ɪm ˈɪntə ðə ˈsɛntər əv ˈpærɪs əz hi həʊpt ɪt wʊd, bət tə Perpignan ɒn ðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃˈbɔːdə.
ðeə hi wəz pɪkt ʌp baɪ ə pəˈliːsmən ənd sɛnt bæk tʊ ˈɪŋglənd baɪ ðə ˈləʊkəl ɔːˈθɒrɪtiz.
hi həz ˈʃʊəli sɛt ʌp ə ˈrɛkɔːd fə ðəˈθaʊzəndz əv ˈʧɪldrən huː driːm əv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skuːl.
任务配置：
L0+L4
知识笔记：
1. play truant
(BrE) (NAmE informal play'hooky) (old-fashioned)
• to stay away from school without permission
• 旷课；逃学
A truant is a student who is out of school without permission. If you skip school to go shopping with your friends, you are a truant.
A person can be a truant, and behavior can be described as truant too, since it's both a noun and an adjective. Your teacher might call you a truant if you skip school and if you didn't show up at your donut shop job, you would also be a truant donut slinger. In fact, anyone who's unexpectedly absent can be described as truant. The Old French truantdescribes a beggar, especially one who lives this way by choice.
2. put to shame
Shame is a painful feeling that's a mix of regret, self-hate, and dishonor. A good person would feel shame if they cheated on a test or did something mean to a friend.
Feeling shame — or being ashamed — is one of the most miserable feelings of them all. When you feel shame, you feel like a bad person and regret what you did. If you're trying to make someone else feel bad by scolding them, you're shaming them. People also often say, "That's a shame," when something bad happens — meaning it's sad or a pity.
3. hitchhike
To hitchhike is to get a free ride from a passing car. If you see someone standing alongside the highway raising a thumb, chances are that person is hitchhiking, not just expressing approval of your driving style.
In the past, it wasn't unheard of for people to hitchhike across the country, but it's much less common today. If you hitchhike, you typically stand beside a road or highway with one thumb pointed up. The hope for a hitchhiker is that a car will stop and its driver will provide a free ride. While for many people, hitchhiking was once considered a reasonable way to travel, today it's illegal in some places and generally thought of as dangerous. The word hitchhike dates from the 1920s.
造成元音之间音质有区别的三个要素：
1. 舌面哪一个部分向上颚抬起？
2. 舌面向上颚抬起程度。闭、闭中、开中、开等等。
3.唇形的圆扁。
所以，舌前部拱起就是前元音；
练习感悟：
又一轮懈怠期出现了吗？今天一点朗读的心情都没有，好想随便读一读了事。。。
children, hundred, driver, dream都有dr的音，念着念着就觉得，我的舌头会不会太靠近上颚了？要不要靠近上颚跟牙齿连接线，然后就完全不知道怎么念了，怎么办。。。
sleep念的不好，时间快到了，只好先发出去，待会儿再来一遍~~
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Our lives were a cycle—the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons—circles of perpetual change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all. I believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal. But eternity belonged only to the mountain. From Educated
