In his small studio on West 37th Street, Mr. Wu, wore a cardigan and a necktie and looked like a truant from a boarding school.

在西第37号街他小小的工作室里，吴先生穿一件羊毛衫、带着一条领带，看上去好像从寄宿学校逃学的学生。

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She was getting into trouble over playing truant from school.

她由于逃学而遇到了麻烦。

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Socially isolated at school, she often played truant and was seen as a troublemaker.

由于在学校被孤立，她总是逃学，被认为是个麻烦的孩子。

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Jurors have heard how she met three of the defendants, Kamar Jamil, Akhtar Dogar and Anjum Dogar, in Oxford while playing truant from school.

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She told the court she and a friend would play truant from school when she was about 13 to meet the men, who were nice to her at first.

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He tries to convince truant children to come to school.

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