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.
        我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
2 y* i8 E5 Z# e193. Life there is simple and good.
- p4 Y! g& F" T4 \        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
4 U& I) e- e9 w- ~% \        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
' [: }1 W0 F5 J3 C195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
* O  g; ~( S& J1 }1 b9 J196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
) L, |- n5 j/ [3 r0 M        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
* h9 X6 t7 ]4 J197. 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。
% D. K% x+ j* h3 n& O4 U6 d( d198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
+ _) X4 {6 Y6 }2 n/ v        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。
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.
        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，
' G( \6 I+ n9 g. O( N203. 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.
: V; s+ T+ y0 E: T/ _+ Z9 O        然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里，到了一座珊瑚岛上。
) {+ W& F: d0 F8 t$ J0 M! J$ y205. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
$ F( s8 ?* X, [9 }; R( o1 m/ @$ F        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 k  W3 d& O* G5 {. U1 y  d207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
* @5 P, |* l! J. V. b        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
% g9 X$ X4 G: @6 b& w# b208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
$ O2 R" x% y+ V3 O: }/ D7 ]; ?        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.
0 i  \7 k, N4 ~: c$ ]& D9 F7 e        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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