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。
  {* s! G" Z8 t' h& s6 e192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
( \& w% k7 y* v8 r; Q3 i4 f        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
7 n4 H8 a4 b! r193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
8 H& o" o9 M/ y+ x194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
% I- L: g; j' [* p/ Y9 }        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
7 k8 A. R5 S; e195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
. G, x1 h+ k) t" \$ Z9 n        另一种想法恰恰相反，
: V$ `5 J  ]; `% o9 x196. 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.
* K, m3 M/ x& x7 ~5 |        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,
/ \! G1 h; _) D9 T. ?2 B        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
: e3 c2 g, X% h199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
) r# g* e, \8 ^7 {1 m2 _        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
+ e5 S, ?7 d- r/ D1 U200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
: w. P) O; N/ S7 T( T        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。
) p. y) a2 E. L2 A; t202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
4 f; e# L  c& Y7 q! a        途中，船开始下沉，
! a( e+ F. l4 M  f" a6 V203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
% {  F4 D- L. `7 @/ i4 ?        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.
        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
2 L* F5 O( K! K, G3 G$ g$ I) z        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.
) `, T$ I$ N" l' ^" a0 I% Z        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.
9 F. ]) v2 n- N4 h/ e% x8 m        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”。
. |2 X% \  H* l209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
+ [1 H; k/ i5 S0 Y        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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