新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
/ ^5 A3 ^  {  |' D191. 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。
/ ^7 f( z$ W3 T& }192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
4 W# e+ g7 g) c& G0 o        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
* e# o4 ]8 v  I6 N! g) [0 ]- K% u193. Life there is simple and good.
3 I0 e: v; L: l% f( W, P        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。
; \' I/ ?3 y$ M6 G195. 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.
8 C& Q: j9 J7 I$ q6 n: Z% W0 ^        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,
6 X# e3 y! d, G1 j0 n        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
199. 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。
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。
; m9 R: w4 z4 y, C5 M202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
+ N+ ~- ]$ ~2 }% U& A4 j3 e203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
) X5 ]3 {1 \' E& y" f# U        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.
1 I* h7 {- X6 C; S1 K2 C* k  S        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
8 l% n0 O' n& k. s9 \6 q205. 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。
206. 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。
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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