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。
192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
/ |8 r* `8 P" \, p" D        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。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
) n6 g4 N8 }2 E6 }9 o! @7 ?6 L        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
8 N* J& ?5 Y5 J5 Z7 N2 _+ r* h195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
3 f/ X" ~+ P  \. t        另一种想法恰恰相反，
% {- i' k: |7 x8 D: J# h196. 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.
% V; t% I4 H7 R! S  @. H$ m* H        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,
% d2 f8 Y! s& W9 y# U( ?        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
+ A1 l$ _4 d, t' Z9 A' _199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
5 J8 Z" e# E% ]/ s+ `0 }        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.
1 G2 X! t* U, P8 ?        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
1 _2 [) G- S! [0 ^! |9 }  Q& G9 u5 _        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。
8 F6 r  ]5 b  o' l; P3 n205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
- g+ R( h+ M: e! Q' t5 G! e        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
/ \0 v7 Y% G, }7 s206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
0 U" |/ n7 o: m% `4 {* B        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”。
! w% g! F9 U- u/ w8 E" g- z209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
& p6 E# B: i# `1 q- i  _+ ~        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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