新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
1 R1 r) c) a1 ~9 l+ I191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
  ~3 `1 a  P3 j- {0 b! y        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
; x! A; u  O: B6 g/ F: c192. 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。
) i( A1 U1 t" y  g- h% O193. Life there is simple and good.
* L4 d* U/ }* p- K: Y# ^        在那里，生活简单又美好。
9 d! s# d. N8 [7 R0 V& `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。
195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
6 `3 `4 u0 r9 z; X) q$ v        另一种想法恰恰相反，
1 y4 M9 u# G$ k9 e196. 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。
7 ~! N* D1 z" I4 K198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
6 N" k$ S0 i  D$ j        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.
  y0 F6 U7 h+ W$ v$ o* s+ {$ O/ e        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
/ t. A6 j. @& U; r200. 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。
202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
        途中，船开始下沉，
4 l9 P9 q7 _% O# w6 Z/ Q203. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer
8 h1 l3 e0 K9 Q3 W        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.
        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
8 \' P* Y# G: G( m        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
, J6 F$ u* f( r6 O0 E206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
3 o+ A# {  W2 f" m/ g        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。
6 u9 h$ m- e$ K3 j; @! |) m208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
% @# }. I/ M* k        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.
  f# S0 I: k' `# B* ^2 m4 B) U        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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