新概念英語第三冊
Lesson 12 Life on a desert island
1 . You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.要麼餓死，要麼像魯濱孫那樣，天天盼船來，卻總沒見船影。
2 . We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.我們有時想像荒島是陽光終日普照的天堂。
3 . As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.由於他們隨身帶了一支捕魚槍，因此，吃飯不愁。
4 . both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.這二位不得不離開那個荒島時，還真的感到遺憾呢！
5 . They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.他們迅速把食物、火柴、罐裝啤酒往一隻救生筏上裝。然後在加勒比海上划行了幾英里，到了一座珊瑚島上。
6 . During the journey, their boat began to sink.途中，船開始下沉，
7 . Life on a desert island is wretched.認為荒島生活很可怕，
8 . They caught lobster and fish every day,and, as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.他們天天捕捉龍蝦和魚，正如其中一位所說，吃得「像國王一樣好」。
9 . Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.我們許多人對於荒島生活有一種不切實際的想法。
10 . Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.最近有兩個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。
11 . Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,也許，這兩種都像都有可信之處。
12 . The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.他們用像皮艇蓄積雨水。
13 . Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.成熟的水果從樹上掉下來，人們根本無需勞動。
14 . Life there is simple and good.在那裡，生活簡單又美好。
15 . They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.他們駕著一條嚴重損壞的小船從維爾京群島阿密修理。
16 . but few us have had the opportunity to find out.但很少有人能有機會去弄個究竟。
17 . The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.另一種想法恰恰相反，
18 . There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.島上幾乎沒有一顆樹，也沒有淡水，但這不算什麼問題。
19 . When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,5天後，一條油輪從那兒路過，搭救了他們。