新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
. E) ?) A, o* m8 H) U191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
  X2 y6 u  Z7 p! h2 i$ [6 d        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。
9 c4 p8 S! K6 g0 ~- b& I! \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.
9 \" l' G: Z* ^* a5 d7 c& ?        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
* C0 x- g2 Y  }0 B195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
5 w0 ?. x7 Z2 c+ K  C0 F        另一种想法恰恰相反，
0 O& I( ]  c3 J196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
6 Q7 q1 z1 p9 @( N# s197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
; }# R  C: K, ~0 z( Y8 U/ o        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
5 O8 F7 C+ p& O# |5 D0 g198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
: \! V( v  W# \. t199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
4 U- y( U8 \1 S        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
" L5 u2 j1 j4 K3 |7 {200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
" y# F' O, r5 A  [        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。
, [: T/ U* d* c/ X! _202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
1 o9 o" C. W" N( |& j: n6 d+ R        途中，船开始下沉，
4 ?/ [% V5 c$ l3 `& J203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
; `8 M+ h5 S& \' I+ U9 |        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.
4 t; t3 M: g5 ^  u        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。
- _% D% N( Y- e' t" u0 ?0 p8 ]206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
% z: K$ t( \0 m' F  G, u. L" R4 V        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。
$ ]" }8 k. T9 z3 }/ z- f208. 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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