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.
2 E6 V7 \' u5 H        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
8 p3 @4 n# g7 S* m192. 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。
* @/ `* N+ @, d, j193. Life there is simple and good.
% @- f" R7 z8 o% Y/ x& _        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。
) W3 I7 c4 I/ h- d1 V195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
- F. g' s3 W4 x& n- f+ ~196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
* P3 Y' E6 _1 M- h197. 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。
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。
( B0 ?5 S" G$ @8 G3 [+ E199. 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。
  g5 [( }4 y! W. `* `4 E4 `& T+ ~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。
: K# a- i3 |  |+ e6 V9 `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。
1 @8 {( |1 f8 C% I202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
6 Z) q7 z) Z: r$ x- m3 V        途中，船开始下沉，
/ _7 J3 B4 `7 O! S203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
! u3 n; m7 [' ~* E7 f- z- w, J! ^        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
" o, @! Z8 P9 t! R1 |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.
% y# a7 q% U6 {, h        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.
% G% N& x, Q% s" f        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'.
- {8 M$ l% ]2 c+ |! D! f5 ^        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”。
. d: e3 h; @+ j( ]  f  g209. 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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