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.
: k2 B0 x% Q3 i        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 _, p& r3 ?( X$ ?7 t1 p        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。
" e& {/ m* @) W& T+ B194. 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。
# Q( j5 u  a3 e+ h195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
) Y7 L+ h* I" e+ t- p        另一种想法恰恰相反，
. V/ h( f& R9 }/ O9 E196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
# V, ~4 \0 e1 _0 e- n        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
- ]  ]) i9 n6 Q1 n, n. b197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
9 {1 s) u* z6 m; Y/ R# k        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
- V7 p! s& t( p3 u) I198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
1 n4 q1 ~3 B  B0 }2 ]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。
- J# B8 ]0 ^1 F- |" F! ^( z& v200. 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。
1 P8 x" {, Y) N0 _5 x2 a201. 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.
5 D- D2 z0 d: {/ r( @! {" [. J        途中，船开始下沉，
+ f5 B- s" j2 \1 v( i4 X4 q3 u: 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.
8 X$ p) N' x+ O. k) p* u. H  q  R) ~        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
+ w, ~8 l3 A& e$ ^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。
# Z! K2 m3 t; E$ ]# o, D206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
( X$ g+ T2 f9 A, a" X9 h) k% J207. 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。
208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
  F, Q* k6 _& [2 y# g; g9 W        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”。
2 j8 [( p& k$ O7 a% G4 O209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
- n1 w* p8 d! G' D) m! V        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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