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.
6 _. C+ s9 M% c        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。
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.
) w) n) i" U8 D) k        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.
* e3 a% j* k8 P) x        另一种想法恰恰相反，
. {9 x6 Q+ ]" U! u: y196. 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,
+ y! L+ e# Q5 ~. H4 b( R        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
+ Z1 E" o* A. F199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
8 M, k  H) a$ s2 d1 W& R: S        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
' }* h2 r9 \, F3 e# R200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
6 ~  f$ f, j" }: l! e: ~7 _# N        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.
" R% u4 B  j$ R0 m+ Q* R& Z# U, Y        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.
; I/ _) q- z- i  W" m8 b5 U; W        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。
9 F/ o! r7 a$ D' o204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
7 S7 o: R; a8 o        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
9 k, |3 F( M  w; a8 b6 r205. 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.
" t$ T8 [# j6 I! @! ~        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
# ~) A& C( v) Y207. 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。
' `0 @# W4 o- P! O: }$ ^# c6 v208. 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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