新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
  h1 v5 [7 U" i+ t' Y6 c- `2 d6 s191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
( t3 C' A. [( D8 y* j        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
7 P9 N8 x5 x  l192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
$ q8 E- L( l, |4 w8 S% `5 t" w0 B        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
  C+ f9 D+ X- X' r9 y' M) G193. Life there is simple and good.
. l" G; g- U$ F        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。
' x  i" Z- \* E* ~1 K3 v* E" q" ~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.
1 J/ A7 C9 h( k0 g/ f* ^2 Z        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.
        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,
4 j) b9 G' f5 ~9 E        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。
; t6 d6 c) n  B. S' G/ f200. 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。
6 M7 Y9 K. Z0 G6 a201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
& Z6 p( G4 _1 f! d        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
3 e% R( w& e  m8 `7 r7 O202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
% }, H* K0 A; l        途中，船开始下沉，
; \6 Q8 G/ S6 z. z' g: u# v203. 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。
204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
& M! e) }& I/ \/ i3 t        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
; u" |& n9 f  ?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。
2 O+ B$ y) D. Z) W0 V206. 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.
& |$ u" A7 q6 C* O: t- b( D        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
( o/ r; U- r9 ]$ x: y1 T# f208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
3 @4 V& C  [) B        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”。
9 Z1 Q8 V6 G6 i2 q) f209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
1 a; ]6 n& _' ~9 `1 d- [6 D        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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