Truant

(noun.) one who is absent from school without permission.

(adj.) absent without permission; 'truant schoolboys'; 'the soldier was AWOL for almost a week' .

校对:玛拉

• Husbands will play the truant, you know. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When I want to be busy with books, I am often playing truant among my thoughts. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Should he go and fetch the truant? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Now this was George's place when he dined at home; and his cover, as we said, was laid for him in expectation of that truant's return. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You also, truant! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They rushed into the kitchen, whither the truants had repaired, and at once obtained rather more than a glimmering of the real state of the case. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

手打:罗纳德