新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
% w8 K6 `8 E; R* q8 [2 n191. 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。
# X: m% {4 p. n+ F2 y7 }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。
8 u8 f4 o. |5 t$ i. x7 S1 \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。
5 c6 l, A) B" G195. 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.
- A% F+ k( D4 u8 t( Y: Z4 d1 g        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 ^+ O% @) e0 y1 K( t' V        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
6 M0 N6 i/ h; Z1 {) B8 o' J8 O198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
( U# ~( q' {  h1 r; R# d$ K* r' p/ G* M        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.
6 [9 j9 H% i$ y. e- _        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.
, h5 A) R+ T. V5 B        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。
( R- A3 S  [3 w, c% @/ F1 ^/ }- V202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
1 G% R+ ^) |( L. |203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
  q6 \+ `" A$ ^0 I" s        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
" B9 b* B- o% |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。
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。
208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
) i3 f  @$ s0 B+ \0 U8 A        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”。
& `) l6 l+ z4 z5 Y3 \. C% p209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
0 ?1 f- t# N5 O8 M, c3 W1 N1 v        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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