新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
, \3 x+ Y% S* m% v' r* p4 M, i191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
8 O# J2 |/ f8 z7 e- T4 k        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.
7 m, P9 n# r1 [' Z        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
$ U) ]' J9 @/ i193. Life there is simple and good.
/ n' h9 {% S/ v9 I7 I% d1 `        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。
195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
& a3 I' I. Z) F, G/ E  D9 `8 I) z        另一种想法恰恰相反，
- L, `. [2 i4 Z& Z196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
# A: _+ u; k& g, j1 N197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
' a- v* Q$ K# F0 M" o! v        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
; i, `7 ^5 S) ?7 I) K$ ^- I; Z198. 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.
! s2 [9 E7 K9 W- V        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
6 I/ c. U( ?, O  ^! P200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
, c& a, s9 c* |+ u& C1 _. x        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。
+ ~3 N$ v4 d; i  J202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
( v* d7 h; b2 y' T203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
* a4 B$ E0 e5 B8 o5 |        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.
) S& ^% f; z& N        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.
3 U4 h, k! X: g& u' a$ }        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。
207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
  P* s* X) D9 Q* ]$ J        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
4 k, e& O4 k% N, F& J' h6 b4 D208. 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”。
209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
- ?6 l4 {7 E6 _        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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