Though he often plays hooky, he does well in study. 他经常逃学,然而他的功课却很好。
On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go swimming. 在第一个暖和的春天,男孩们逃了学游泳去了。
hooky
[ noun ] failure to attend (especially school) <noun.act>
Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
Hooky \Hook"y\ (h[oo^]k"[y^]), n. [Written also {hookey}.] [Cf. {Hook}, v. t., 3.] A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
This talk about boys . . . playing ball, and ``hooky,'' and marbles, was all moonshine. --F. Hopkinson Smith. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Dukakis said in Oakland. "He was playing hooky.
Sally Field is a New Jersey housewife and mother of three who plays hooky from home for the same reason.
Jaime Escalante, the Los Angeles high schoolteacher who inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," played hooky from school to accept an honorary degree.
For once, enlightened irresponsibility was rewarded: Also playing hooky from the formal summit proceedings was a top aide to French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.