新概念英語第三冊lesson12-life-on-a-desert-island(已修改)
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【正文】 Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒島生活【Text】167。 Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 荒島生活What was exceptional about the two men’s stay on the desert island?Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never es. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and tins of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it 39。ate like kings39。. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.參考譯文我們許多人對(duì)于荒島生活有一種不切實(shí)際的想法。我們有時(shí)想象荒島是陽光終日普照的天堂。在那里，生活簡單又美好。成熟的水果從樹上掉下來，人們根本無需勞動(dòng)。另一種想法恰恰相反，認(rèn)為荒島生活很可怕，要么餓死，要么像魯濱孫那樣，天天盼船來，卻總沒見船影。也許，這兩種都像都有可信之處。但很少有人能有機(jī)會(huì)去弄個(gè)究竟。最近有兩個(gè)人在一座珊瑚島上呆了5天，他們真希望在那兒再多呆一些日子
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