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.
        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.
* t  B/ X2 n9 l6 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.
0 F5 G4 [% |. m# ?* X/ F9 z        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
) o; F1 T" `7 B& X( f2 I        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.
% Q% ?2 t# m1 P9 f7 R, A& p/ c0 r        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
, x! _. [+ M) w3 l9 |, j* g  ~  p198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
7 I9 E: H, |1 i& f2 [7 l2 k199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
# L; |: o; i+ V" w- C* t        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.
3 i' o$ U: P2 Q3 A6 R        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。
! P' z% s5 o; H3 |# j" w201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
  H' h! W# |& ~- T, [9 }# z( ]5 N! ]        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.
$ S- O5 |9 j) d, b1 D        途中，船开始下沉，
4 s( Q) I0 T% q: }% V203. 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.
        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.
% |9 `9 f- d6 H        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
( `2 |! c4 t: Q& R+ \2 p5 m2 h206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
" J6 C0 `# p. a207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
6 H& j: V3 ?  Z8 g/ [) t, F9 k        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
- g- L6 C% m# o- p( ^208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
, `" F9 p; b: w9 [        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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