英语口语900句 05.03.对话.3.子女教育

Tommy played truant¹ today. His teacher called me this morning.

Where did he go?

I've asked him,but he won't tell me. What shall we do about this?

He is like you. I remember when we were at the collage² you always skipped classes.

Like me? But you see I'm so sucessful now. And if he is really like me he will be more successful than me in the future.

Stop,stop! We are talking about our son's attendance³ for classes and his study.

Maybe we could give him a little bit of money to pay him to go to school.

Pay him? But he studys for himself,not for you or for me or for anybody else.

I've got an idea. You should send him to class every morning,and after class begins you can go to work.

In that way,I'll be late everyday. How about letting him go to school on school bus?

That's a good idea! Why have I never thought of that?

That's because,I went to school for each class when I was at school,so now I'm much more clever than you.

1 truant   

n.懒惰鬼，旷课者；adj.偷懒的，旷课的，游荡的；v.偷懒，旷课

参考例句：

• I found the truant throwing stones in the river.我发现那个逃课的学生在往河里扔石子。
• Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。

2 collage   

n.拼贴画；v.拼贴；把……创作成拼贴画

参考例句：

• A collage of coloured paper covers a table top.一副彩纸拼贴画盖在桌面上。
• He has used a mixture of mosaic,collage and felt-tip pen.他混合使用了马赛克、拼贴画和毡头笔。

3 attendance   

n.出席，出席人数，护理，照料

参考例句：

• The attendance of this class never dropped off.这个班的出席人数从未下降。
• The young man danced attendance on his rich aunt.这个年轻人小心侍候他有钱的姑妈。