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.
% o) y$ E# b0 G6 g        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
$ J7 c4 E) d1 M/ o' T192. 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。
/ d+ D% w* s7 O7 t193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
: k' @$ `6 A5 I3 ?) V) n* F194. 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。
$ |) C" L& H3 I7 D7 k, Q; q195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
- \9 }" P% Y! `& p        另一种想法恰恰相反，
2 w1 j1 q! b/ I1 x+ h196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
( ]- O! \! B1 |8 N6 @        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.
7 \+ S' X9 j* C  w$ y        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。
+ b1 A  y( ]! Y* J/ _3 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。
$ K* H5 V$ S' [* }( S! k/ e; h200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
: ^5 j7 r; J: |, s1 d- U% T# T        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。
202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
- K. a5 @. f; F+ e) M+ I8 _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。
/ N5 w# Y: Q, k' ?) ]( T204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
! H( j% Y* G1 l        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。
1 p$ O/ q( @: k4 j' N206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
, T( J% V( p$ @/ n8 E207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
& n- c8 e! w- y        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
$ Z  D) ], w+ O0 F% Q% Z208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
, t# ]; r* N1 E4 p        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”。
+ g+ E7 m# k. y# D3 I- e209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
+ R& }9 a( D& g0 Z        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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