新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
% |; R! k% R/ M192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
3 L$ Q9 T3 S( i9 Z3 @' r        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
) H. ?+ B" W0 q* x5 }+ F4 N7 P  w7 |7 B193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
! U& Q8 Z- i5 K5 P0 v194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
: `2 p, M+ O, G6 j! h        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
0 r! V8 B" B4 l" R) L( {6 K* }( q        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
& j/ ~/ D* K- M5 Z6 q7 l6 a199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
8 Q3 N2 y8 j1 i& P        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
        最近有两个人在一座珊瑚岛上呆了5天，他们真希望在那儿再多呆一些日子。
201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
9 U( S) o' M2 H8 l! J! C/ r4 c203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
8 f. Q9 e* Y# R. r5 Y$ X. [        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
. A" t& L; q2 E) `# b7 j        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
0 b, H5 Q. Y" }: w; {7 g5 N205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
& K8 w5 C3 u3 j& ]! _* j206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
' @/ l+ A8 L. q( w: Z; [1 _208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
        他们天天捕捉龙虾和鱼，正如其中一位所说，吃得“像国王一样好”。
209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
        5天后，一条油轮从那儿路过，搭救了他们。这二位不得不离开那个荒岛时，还真的感

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