Children escaping from school lack imagination. What they can do at most is fishing quietly for a day or sitting in a movie theater for eight hours, watching the same film again and again. However, there is one boy who travelled 1,600 miles while he was escaping the school. That made other kids who escape from school look dumb. He took a ride to Dover, then boarded on a ship to find a place to sleep. He found out, when he woke up the next morning, that the ship had arrived at Calai. No body spotted him when he got off the ship. From there, he ws given a lift by a truck driver going to Paris. The driver gave him some crackers and a cup of coffee, then dropped him off outside of the city. The boy stopped another car. But he was taken to Perpignan, the border of Spain and France, instead of of the center of Paris that he was hoping for. He was caught by a poilce officer there and was sent back by authority to Britain. Without a doubt, he has created a record for thousands of kids who dream of escaping school.
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来。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。
