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.
, D! Z3 b- i2 A        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
/ _* D0 i2 q5 A/ T% g192. 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.
7 B/ ~! E7 i. G. n        在那里，生活简单又美好。
4 }& X' f9 X- y( M" }194. 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。
2 e) z( A2 r3 V2 ]+ q195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
! w* N% b! i3 `+ E* f196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
" z: I& O8 c# ~; I8 m        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.
3 S% s- N% w6 E9 f% A6 `/ l: v        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。
199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
4 R' h( F( p& ^5 T0 K        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
: C+ H( I5 P5 }, E9 ~200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
( `# A4 B# D  i        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.
: G  _' k  J$ K9 f$ z        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
7 h' W7 K/ q) T& p6 x4 N% Z9 Q202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
5 p6 p- l8 y% H! G203. 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。
+ @: k9 B* W7 X204. 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。
, P2 W$ r4 v- O- b- o& |6 B' n205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
, A+ F7 W# ^  a2 ]% Z; B* P4 t        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.
, q) n: ^: E+ E  Y. G0 ], H        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'.
3 l2 |7 F8 H! [" U        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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