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.
8 @! b  e$ F  ^        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.
8 f4 p- S3 J+ t9 u        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.
  K/ y  @1 x! R  \: }5 ?        在那里，生活简单又美好。
. Y; ?7 k+ n! b: {: l  V* j194. 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。
( U- \0 U: ]% z: l2 H195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        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，
6 B6 ]+ F1 Q- E- @- s197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
( o/ F  p* O1 G) c: L8 M0 y/ H        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,
( D' A* N( M2 [, L; m' H        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。
+ R* k& H( u. t: ^* U- t200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
: s) ^/ h& W$ X/ q2 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。
4 f* b. o; b' p( u3 R. p202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
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。
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.
        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.
# Z4 _3 I& W  C3 V/ }" {. ]        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
8 [, m5 J2 b1 c* Y5 e208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
/ }6 @' P# e8 t" x        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) |  j+ L( u  q209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
- ]2 j) B  y0 p$ e  r( Z( G        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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