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.
- i+ Y. e8 U* o% @3 _0 d/ w        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.
5 D; O% e/ l6 [' t* c/ p7 k        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.
+ J: g0 ?, Y: T, u) I8 x        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
1 _9 f, p2 y" r        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
% g9 Y! J8 p( V; ?195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
" M  _7 `: v0 V& X/ t1 N; B8 W        另一种想法恰恰相反，
) Z& L' I  d: i( Z( J( S- S196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
' m( K5 d" ]; H5 E6 c& d197. 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,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
, l0 f+ h# c" u( T/ N# x199. 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。
' @1 ~& d$ A# E200. 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。
4 D& K# U" B& `# Y" s202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
( y2 C0 S+ R) |5 C% k% p& z203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
* W" W8 t9 Z' Z+ S' S1 B        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
4 I% o( X2 ]1 Q7 k4 ]6 F" x204. 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.
. v& p0 E: ~" _  Q  M5 b        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.
" `8 c* Y; F" U# N, A2 u$ s        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.
7 N5 `8 w- ~, |" o7 `* ^        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'.
        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”。
% s* R1 w% F$ F+ d2 Q1 I) g209. 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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