新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
4 @# r$ N- k# |% u5 B8 z191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
" h/ H' m- v: @        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.
' F; j% F+ o* u2 f7 ^9 {        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.
( |+ K( J, Z) ]        在那里，生活简单又美好。
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.
8 U3 n) \9 g1 R3 q$ {        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，
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。
198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
- i% ]6 s5 i) ~3 n& e( t        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
/ s) F4 x9 `( z) T& u199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
: w1 s# f2 @8 ^. y2 S5 q3 P# j        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
. X: y; H" [% Y0 X7 w- Q200. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.
$ i; a. J) J5 s9 _        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。
- V" @) B+ n3 F% q) P7 [- d7 J  @6 G201. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
( I. Z; j5 |6 `! |# D! I        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，
  a3 X6 t- M. g203. 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.
        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.
        岛上几乎没有一颗树，也没有淡水，但这不算什么问题。
* _( O, \4 T: P2 E0 M206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
8 b) i* @% D& I        他们用像皮艇蓄积雨水。
: s1 \0 o( J+ i; p7 F207. 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。
- m2 W- U6 N4 J( A$ P208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
        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 [+ W- W$ D* }6 ~- F: _- i        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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