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。
192. 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。
2 Q5 o' x% m! H- u; o193. Life there is simple and good.
! w  i: K2 R# u2 ^        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
, A$ g" s& u! P# `6 ~8 X) c        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
3 g7 `' p& Q) r, _4 S195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
# X0 Y+ P$ H: q, G2 q( `196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
8 R# ]+ `1 O$ u+ B        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
, S% [! V0 i2 [+ b: O197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
; b, b$ V2 \& H) e        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
3 \4 \* |9 f4 m- V+ Z  ^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。
) s0 t9 L1 p) v/ \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。
- |" s4 Z7 l2 U- q200. 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.
( D5 \: ]( U" ~) U, Q        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
( k; W- p, _/ C: p' {& S% K; T202. 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
        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.
9 u5 |2 I; x1 j0 D1 e1 b/ x2 i$ C        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.
        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
  z" m+ X  |" n2 D208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
" ?8 I6 F. a: E" {6 E        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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