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。
* c7 l9 z4 i5 `/ I+ |192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
1 }; b0 E* U7 h        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
/ |  ^1 }% w+ @5 g; T193. Life there is simple and good.
9 L/ J5 Y; ~0 _( e        在那里，生活简单又美好。
$ H) L; x9 k# ^! @5 B( ^0 x194. 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。
7 j" s; E1 Q; Z* X4 [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.
; F; }/ F" X% }2 c/ }8 d. [        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
" R! V; j' o9 L2 P/ h- @+ e1 U5 C7 ~$ I198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        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.
4 C" Y* F+ v" k. S& C/ S        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。
. g2 k5 f" w  E* R) n) w  U' p8 |201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
' ?. A2 j0 u4 n1 K; c+ B9 O8 E$ ~* d        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，
203. 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。
1 a) @" [& E2 ~0 y* D" y204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
8 j( J  }3 k( A2 D- E        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
8 o) y7 a3 ~3 n+ A" V8 o205. 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.
0 F* T" w+ x* Q5 k' B4 d$ q        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
% B2 B4 o. G& D1 z1 r: W207. 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'.
* ?5 h, P2 S9 M( K2 {! I' ^- U        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.
) i3 W$ g* f$ n, l% `9 V1 y8 t        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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