新概念英语3--（一天学一篇）---课12

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课文12  荒岛生活
$ L5 K9 I. A5 w4 U3 J191. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
. Y) T9 u7 G0 H, J  I/ B. _        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。
9 Q2 M0 g; _1 ~* \3 b7 D193. Life there is simple and good.
        在那里，生活简单又美好。
& a6 u( M" p1 F7 [0 v' p194. 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。
8 ~0 ~, D& w6 F7 X& S( r* e$ C195. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
; T  j: p- D) }& `3 \        另一种想法恰恰相反，
196. Life on a desert island is wretched.
& b% A* e8 p& r1 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.
# Q& }  h2 y7 X. `        要么饿死，要么像鲁滨孙那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。
5 b  |7 F, m) ?1 {( G198. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
5 m. t' a) y- e( d& ~        也许，这两种都像都有可信之处。
, X* h" g* ], f+ Q- e199. 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。
, d9 G* U9 C' ~' R  c# y' D6 z0 |  k200. 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。
" S' [, @- u# }1 r4 s202. During the journey, their boat began to sink.
4 F4 g3 w8 e+ N8 c& Q# e$ o        途中，船开始下沉，
203. 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。
4 K* N; K( e0 {$ ^, @; q! ?204. and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
  Q- G9 f. m$ h* b. I        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.
& A' e- Q0 |9 s6 q6 w, u0 i" u8 u        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。
207. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
' t. ~% ?  p! r8 q; p0 Q) t  B        由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，因此，吃饭不愁。
  e( w2 _, [0 b/ H2 x: a& B208. They caught lobster and fish every day，and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
1 e* d- Z( H/ H9 O8 }" W. U/ u        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.
# Z  K& |, v4 L; K  J) W) W& q        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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