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。
192. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
- p1 O5 e7 R' E5 o+ F- B1 N" p8 J        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.
8 h$ D* \3 _& v5 q* q        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
9 e9 m7 z4 A; D: ^% B& g% H        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
- Q6 \1 v7 r* k+ B  j) A% R196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
, ~8 M' Z5 }3 r2 z/ a        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
( w  O* l0 T9 _1 t$ T+ a; J197. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
: K1 ]. I2 H  G+ C. A; o" m; V1 s        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
! z6 k6 @7 ~! r+ O! u; l198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
4 ~  X" Q! B# S199. 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。
7 u7 |5 A2 G; {) f200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
! u# u: z  I6 ?' a; F9 x; i2 z  n        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.
* ~# `3 B9 n* b. L  G2 u2 S1 K        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.
' f) l" M6 J& {( W        途中，船开始下沉，
: [  |6 `  D& Y! a9 X3 w203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
( b( `+ p$ X& K2 K        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.
2 [' i' j. L) |, g3 t        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
7 o7 H; _' V2 {6 n205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
# d2 _( l, n- Q  @( j  A1 n        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。
* i4 h" t& a$ @0 k3 C* F" C! Z207. 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'.
# |$ L+ @6 y1 M% k  M6 h9 k5 s        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”。
8 H3 o+ L' W; s1 V$ p* u- j209. 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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