Words

record-holder

The man had been training for 10 years. He aimed to break the world record. Ono the day of the challenge, his performance was so great that he broke the record without a doubt. Now, he is the new record-holder, and no one has successfully challenged him so far.

No one has successfully broken the world record so far.

She was anxious when she was trying to break the world record.

After successfully breaking the record, the new record-holder burst into tears.

truant n.

play truant from school…

The child was so naughty that he used to play truant from school and never learned anything.

Have you ever played truant from school?

She is such a good that she hasn’t played truant from school even once.

I couldn’t find a chance to play truant from school.

unimaginative adj.

imagine v. imaginative adj.

He is such an unimaginative young man that he keeps watching the same movie over and over again rather than watching a different one.

Do you think I am an unimaginative person?

shame n.

be put to shame = put sb. to shame

The child put her classmates to shame because she not only played truant from school but also helped her friend learn English.

I was put to shame because I didn’t know how to help her with her homework.

Can you help me with my homework? No, I don’t understand your homework. You put me to shame.

hitchhike v.

hitchhike to sw.

I decided to hitchhike to school.

After playing truant from school, I hitchhiked to the cinema near my house and watched the same movie over and over again.

How did you hitchhike to the remote village.

Instead of taking the bus, I chose to hitchhike to work.

meantime n.

in the meantime

In the meantime, he was busy with his homework.

In the meantime, I was hurrying to the ticket office to buy two movie tickets.

I’ll start putting up the tent. Meantime, you can start a campfire.

The girl is challenging the record and there is great hope that she will break it. In the meantime, the crowd was looking on quietly.

lorry n.

“He was hit by a lorry last night.”, she said in a sympathetic voice.

I hitchhiked home on a lorry.

If you see a lorry on the road, you shouldn’t ride beside it because of the danger.

The lorry delivered the goods to the supermarket this morning.

The lorry was parked outside the factory all night.

Did you see the lorry that was parked outside the factory last night?

border n.

If you cross the border, you will be killed by the soldiers.

He insisted on crossing the border, so he was killed by the soldiers.

Obviously, it is no use trying to move to neighboring countries by crossing the border, because there are a lot of soldiers guarding it.

The government has strengthened the guarding of the border.

evade v.

He managed to evade the police.

She tried to evade paying taxes by hiding her income.

She couldn’t evade the questions during the interview.

Why did she try to evade paying taxes by hiding her income?

Why couldn’t she evade the questions during the interview?

Expressions

over and over again…

Because you were unaware of it, you did that to me over and over again.

Please don’t do that over and over again.

I don’t know why you did that over and over again.

To challenge the world record, she trained over and over again.