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.
$ w8 ]* T3 R6 d) C8 ]* N. g        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
  V3 g8 m3 b" ~. ^0 J' J- U* z1 o/ f193. Life there is simple and good.
% k) z) U0 Z8 ]1 u" n2 n" D# I+ \        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
9 \0 `) B6 Z5 ~4 W195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
" D" r, u6 k$ h5 S% b( E        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
8 k! u: @( l0 H( G- l/ r# V        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.
2 t$ @1 v% y/ H- G! ~/ {        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
8 Z+ ]# j7 G' i( |6 g2 D3 G$ [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。
! @. Y9 p! a$ q) S# @* p199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
; l/ q/ J! F' k  c8 D200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
1 }: d; X' X8 `  a! X  r        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，
6 X1 D' N/ |. e, L203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
        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.
* `# z+ T) Z  \8 R; u        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
) w7 r" n  Y  h* i% u& _& m( k205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
3 ^& D; {* |, F        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
* M4 N# o$ S5 R9 w206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
( J5 H1 v6 _5 @        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
3 B3 e! z( L. e3 M# R9 Q. \9 i207. 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。
* u# c  v+ @* `+ }% `% [, R208. 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”。
3 l: |$ S8 z2 l. U, Q' d3 g1 Z209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
8 E* j9 k, k* E# `$ n        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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