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They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles. He hitchhiked 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, travelled to Calais.
No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked 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.
as sb. hope / expect 正如某人所希望的
Eg: I became a good teacher as my mother hoped.
than sb hope /expect 超过某人所希望的
the French-Spanish border 法国与西班牙的边界 （边界地带属于哪个地方由第一个国籍确定）
not … but…不是 …而是 …
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country .
