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。
. X6 Y8 r7 m' W3 \+ D- H% b192. 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.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
! l, i: u" Q. w        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
9 l2 V$ B; O- t& L) E9 Q" U4 c8 W195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
, c+ k0 a& I! h/ i3 ]" j# p9 w* M        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，
' M7 {3 r! A1 c0 o+ ]: J' B197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
8 J5 p( d, _% K198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
+ V7 r3 Q( C( z; E2 f+ Q: `1 k        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。
: ]+ }4 r: d8 W$ Y; u: r+ H. q  `7 _5 E200. 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。
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。
+ N/ q+ g" S8 ^" b. M6 o202. 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
  R1 d3 g+ e; }5 u        他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只救生筏上装。
9 D8 \5 _6 `. N( o5 l204. 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。
/ p  \) {- k/ ]) D) g, q205. 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。
$ W* R$ V2 X! `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.
* _5 [* E5 g7 }7 Q9 I% ~        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
. \. N" K* A- Z$ a208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
% Y1 U3 d+ K; E# c, K. {* h        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”。
. V- T$ ?3 I/ ]7 }6 q* H/ P% n; h' [209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
, H; D1 e) X7 E0 N6 G' }3 T# A" j        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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