新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
) ^8 s; J' w9 L) l: K191. 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。
3 i8 N) r$ K, D" E192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
) C4 u1 X0 u0 M% c0 W        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.
2 Q  ^- J( r! b! k4 i' j        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。
; }0 T9 V" C: c195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
& U+ ^" E4 U+ l- u' E        另一种想法恰恰相反，
( X5 e1 _8 _/ M6 W1 Y196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
* j8 Y* Z  O  q: E; B8 p% \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,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
! A( [+ _& c. {1 v# h2 \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。
200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
0 h0 L5 U3 N2 _9 p( I        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 b: l) c  W' x5 y* x201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
0 V5 `  a/ M( g5 E- {        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
1 w' q+ b1 }7 t. ^8 w) C. I/ Q% n, A202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
# v" N0 M& }' m8 _- M        途中，船开始下沉，
' g# d( Q" h' Q" G) k9 F" v+ d203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
0 N% ~% q: X+ \' O1 T7 e        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
" F0 s) T  t* e. A6 D3 ~2 i! H204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
$ _) f3 p! `: P5 `" M5 Q. f! \        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.
        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
# q! h, e, H  p" q/ }; P206. 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.
3 c- n9 [4 l# L0 l$ w; e' `        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”。
209. 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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