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.
: F, `. l8 C7 b0 ~" }" ]/ d. r) F( F        我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
& \! B+ H2 g( |; e8 M4 K6 U192. 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。
193. Life there is simple and good.
2 A& U1 {$ T: C9 V+ O: X' _        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.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
# M! b# F6 T6 l0 S: ~) X4 H9 y) H196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
        认为荒岛生活很可怕，
, b5 E2 ?6 w& K9 D1 g! E8 d3 F197. 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。
- l! l! H3 h2 K1 a7 d198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
, Q6 i1 h) w/ m5 P- S" r9 w        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
/ u. ]0 R1 {6 a7 T' o- z* p199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
6 W5 A7 d5 _' S4 U& U( C6 r        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.
$ g9 S4 E6 s5 }1 b9 Y2 y        他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。
  o$ l' m% S3 [7 C( A9 E& D, Q202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
7 D9 Q+ C5 f8 t3 i; ^* m        途中，船开始下沉，
1 `1 o3 x* m' J% j203. 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。
206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
& u; y$ u* a1 i, ?( ~        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'.
        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”。
; v9 Z4 j) z1 L/ ?209. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
9 B( h& z4 G5 o$ n  G( u5 n6 ^        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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