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.
# @& K; |2 o+ j9 r, C5 `, l        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。
* G( T' u+ V0 C. Z1 K; M9 S6 Q193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
: u  a/ P3 Z- ^, @; x. b194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
0 r. a# A/ N; W* _$ X2 u, g        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
% m0 ?9 W9 @( N! @* r' ~1 d195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
4 z* a9 c: C; ?2 ~* H+ U0 Y  y* N        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
# Q7 ~. E6 \+ A7 p* p8 }        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
; X- C6 W0 ^* C% \5 {. L197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
) y; s) F& }9 d+ J        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.
        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
2 Y( d: Y. c. a, k200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
1 _7 W2 l& {$ Y1 |$ H' h) F/ _        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.
( _5 E/ [3 U% _3 ~$ @6 k/ Y% z        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
* T" [! j- i( S) i* E& S202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
6 p0 A* [$ }% n( H0 B3 o5 Y203. 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。
6 S8 a4 C2 b9 j( ]2 |9 t, N) {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。
$ G5 i# k( ~, T1 D# B) R205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
' Z& \+ h4 Y. Q4 w. I, Y  @  O        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.
: v8 w; Z# G5 X        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.
        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'.
$ _2 B6 j8 k! 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.
6 u/ T) \/ ?1 ?$ d1 m0 Y- }4 L        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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