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.
  ^* F( a' e$ O" ^8 U        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
# L/ S2 Z+ m5 S* |192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
8 D( q% V  H+ W. I* o; Y3 g- E8 R        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.
        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。
" f, T# |) R  k+ _( ?195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
  W  [/ z8 q3 c0 W196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
$ P  \0 I! Q& w* M% C) t        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.
7 o8 Z. O3 a' S        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。
# w3 h" X! Q- m% }& z199. 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.
        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.
        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
/ ~7 A+ |4 I! C' y; g2 m1 x202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
- w9 O/ j; e, Q( `+ p6 N2 r- Y203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
: h: t  A7 z) o' h2 Z) r+ ]: V        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
$ F$ a% G, I; r3 P  u204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
4 }/ {" O* c& Z) L# t- N  p0 B        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
1 m; n0 s9 E  A' S205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
7 b0 m; |7 J% y        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.
  ~4 O! t5 O& k/ j9 C1 d        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
* A+ i5 @1 _+ u. i207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
9 [+ b" a4 ?. F5 a        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
7 J0 C! T( ]4 ^8 s7 L208. 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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