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。
/ P; x& r4 z4 Y192. 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.
9 h7 B6 U5 }& m1 P% b2 z3 a$ d        在那里，生活简单又美好。
194. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
7 u( [% C. Q! a0 ~5 F$ e/ P( M: X* y        成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。
  t* }0 s' W/ t( Z195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
" ]# x2 c" ^' v        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.
3 o5 ^# }. ]7 q. b  Z3 W7 ~4 |- O        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
/ B( F7 y( V2 p9 }, z& F1 ]/ a198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
2 q- ?4 G4 N+ w199. but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
1 c$ S+ _& O1 e2 |7 D        但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟。
# P1 e: ]/ n8 N3 d. z200. 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。
- v% Z5 h; r" ^9 u+ n6 Q202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
/ T- c6 h( s0 {& |2 |! g* {3 o        途中，船开始下沉，
  m( B( i9 M8 ^. f8 w203. 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.
8 h9 a9 |) |0 d/ B$ z( J        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。
( u) ~' S# K2 t+ }3 T6 M206. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
3 f/ T' I0 X4 j# J! S8 M$ o        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”。
209. 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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