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.
5 a& y% S4 b0 g# q1 d- ~6 Q" a& f        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
1 G4 L6 n4 \1 w' e/ Z- n9 ^& C192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
$ f' a: _2 B6 _9 o3 j        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
8 {7 i& L" S% L9 ?+ B1 w$ F) ~5 J194. 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。
5 b$ o6 X& t% Y( u) ]* T  W195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
# d. c, R  F/ O  c        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
5 J; b, m6 f# R        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
5 ]) ~0 p) Y& Y0 D; F% h7 u1 D197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
2 c( x# a) m; ~- I3 o8 @198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
9 p5 X7 L3 e- 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。
2 S0 o7 N" P% m& h% z7 [# v9 f; k200. 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。
$ T; n: @9 f/ K- j* y) c201. 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/ z3 H; ]+ B, M- S7 W4 b203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
6 J# Z1 I7 J4 A$ y! d7 j        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
- G# b# o9 \7 T204. 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.
        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。
( |0 N- b& d' B' w1 @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”。
+ y- b* a* m' o209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
" r+ G$ j, k; U        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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