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。
/ S* ^5 u8 ]+ F4 ^0 D5 D( K9 [193. Life there is simple and good.
4 W7 t7 n  F4 C( t' \) |4 u        在那里，生活简单又美好。
  n6 n1 h+ w3 u! `9 E194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
) Q8 z$ w8 ^, b! ?! m& w" ^! y195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
" X5 O: ]7 D! R9 d2 |: c        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，
" A5 S2 w/ B1 s: W) P197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
0 x9 d) d/ q& U/ N# r8 v& W        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,
! A$ \( c- s. x+ l8 [        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
199. 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。
200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
6 t! U5 O8 _0 T' N* h        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。
3 j& u9 \( Q; K. `0 A202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
: D  \( o; y" W" a. w* v/ x5 S203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
" Q' c6 g; I) ^; h1 o+ _% ^        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
% ]: c4 E" Z4 l. ?& {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.
        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.
4 W9 g6 ^& [" V( j        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。
9 v, c+ }- q6 n0 Z208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
8 T5 l' E( G$ I0 e/ i2 d7 k        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”。
, H7 M$ y) w; o1 s" |" I/ H/ p; p209. 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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