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.
# ?# M; s+ w2 j# ]9 w6 D1 y        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
) [. B0 k  A$ R0 N192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
        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.
& g0 D# @  l2 `( g& M; r$ z        在那里，生活简单又美好。
) M% q# \$ G7 b# G+ z5 L194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
6 E0 a# N2 c/ V( Z        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.
/ p' c6 Q$ n7 U( B1 D        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. 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.
6 v" `  e' l1 c6 _+ S2 ^        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
* P# g* ]' h; `+ \7 n198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
' j! N1 f1 e4 f199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
. n( \- [+ Q9 `- H) s, v! q        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
6 ?, Y8 [1 L! d. I200. 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.
( N8 a2 e: X3 Q9 _; @0 c& [        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
2 k5 z9 n: t6 I4 u3 X        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。
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。
206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
; S$ \; i# x  M3 j207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
% ]5 S1 A- K& \. t0 q" X% Q+ D        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'.
  h7 b* K5 R$ }& Z4 M6 ^! T        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”。
  t. `0 S3 @; Q' t9 r" n# }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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