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。
  r* D0 O3 }: C( q% O2 b192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
$ ~- u9 g9 e6 ^        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
0 l6 a- w5 G- q- U) {193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
1 h2 _' _; y, s& v3 h9 F194. 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.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
! o+ F! E5 S& D* `        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
1 R8 r0 u2 L/ I; T% ?" t197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
( w9 K7 E% M5 [4 L5 K        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,
6 m) x, h" U9 s, w3 X' B        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.
9 n, n. z1 i* B. N( {$ |! L        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
. T' M* o4 q7 s/ V* C- n; [$ z- @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。
+ W( `& j. ~6 R' O201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
& B( E- N; _1 n' i        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.
' ^5 j6 t6 \: d" `/ q        途中，船开始下沉，
6 {' T) `+ x" L& `% o203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
2 u: T3 d% N4 s1 z2 V        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
0 \1 k) G  _5 ^& f! ~204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
& j5 v4 c8 r% S: t# R; ^        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
( f6 S' M* n9 s" I. o; L205. 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。
" J% ~; B6 n9 l, m/ ^206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
5 K" h* S/ ?) ?7 _6 J! f1 m        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.
- T2 O/ m. y$ W# l6 }        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.
9 a' ]* q5 O* m3 J        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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