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.
/ n7 J8 A8 g6 _" d# [. z% b2 [        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
$ x; K; b; Y! L& i9 p/ w2 t192. 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。
3 k& R$ M% h4 c, K) L0 _193. Life there is simple and good.
1 p2 `( ~" S6 L; o6 \        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
# z& T/ N, K7 ]9 Y5 j; o; _+ 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.
        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.
        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,
  j7 A) w4 Q1 g# h+ W. u        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
: F& I" B8 O8 r199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
% ]# T- M) A1 E3 v        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。
6 ~$ ]- o$ p3 Q* o2 |  @; U202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
1 T+ ~2 P2 t1 o1 P' C" M. H        途中，船开始下沉，
1 o  W9 x8 J( n8 p203. 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.
7 s( J/ l8 I  A6 G3 Y- T        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
6 I! f4 L/ Q5 b* K205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
& K2 C* h. ^, W( Z% W) _9 _0 U        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
0 c2 P  v! ~* @; r' U206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
$ G  i: C: ^3 i        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.
; s. O& o3 F% y' V        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'.
  q. g8 U' k3 t* p1 ]        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”。
, A( h( T6 N/ y# R9 \5 s209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
! T4 @0 ~8 P& m  i% p7 W% B' O& ]        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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