He pulled his empty rickshaw round the streets and several tames was quite close to the yard, yet each time turned away again, like a child who has played truant for the first tame and dares not go home.

• 他拉着空车在街上绕，两三次已离车厂不远，又转回头来往别处走，很像初次逃学的孩子不敢进家门那样。