新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

ltlong52010

课文12  荒岛生活
191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
. Z- ?; }! p% B        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.
        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。
1 v% M5 ~% K4 p) ]194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
) s" k3 @" Z1 N        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
6 Q' J4 u. _$ P4 Q: y# Q195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
. b: ?- _2 V& o196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        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.
        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
+ v& v# ]* R1 U+ H2 U& R198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
  v3 I7 H& m1 g4 K        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
5 i! i) R0 S6 W! L199. 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。
200. 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.
; B' g# `3 n3 T, R% r1 w, ^        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，
! M5 {. ?5 }& V  }$ ?: O3 D203. 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.
% ~! b4 g3 q2 F2 g+ k( Y! Z0 g/ ]        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
, S9 M0 {4 F, e( e! ^7 K9 D  k205. 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。
, _! ?9 O$ e" T% W  [% d207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
. p& W' e/ r. Q4 a+ a5 o        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
6 L; z4 ^6 U8 W* Z208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
0 |0 _! q' ~8 a" a5 [: N        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 {# y  }0 T) B3 T3 x        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

潜水工