那些逃课的孩子们缺乏想象力。
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.
安安静静地钓上一天的鱼，或者在电影院里一遍又一遍地看同一部电影看上八个小时，通常就是他们所能做到的极限了。
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.
一个逃课的男孩行驶了1600英里，这让他们都自愧不如。
They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.
他搭便车到了多佛，傍晚时分钻进一艘船，想找个地方睡觉。
He hitchhiked to Dover and towards evening went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.
第二天早上醒来时，他发现那艘船在此期间已经驶到了加莱。
When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais.
没有人注意到这个男孩悄悄溜走了。
No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
从那里，他乘坐一辆货车搭便车去了巴黎。
From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry.
司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，然后把他留在了城市郊外。
The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.
那个男孩拦下的下一辆车没有把他送到巴黎市中心——正如他所希望的那样——而是把他带到了法西边境的佩皮尼昂。
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.
在那里，他被一名警察带走，并由地方当局遣送回了英国。
There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.
他无疑已经为那数千个梦想逃避上学的孩子们创下了一项纪录。
He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.