歌词
--- lesson 12 Life on a desert island
荒岛生活
--- Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
^听录音，然后回答以下问题。
--- 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.
^我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。
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。
Life there is simple and good.
^在那里，生活简单又美好。
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。
The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
^另一种想法恰恰相反，
Life on a desert island is wretched.
^认为荒岛生活很可怕，
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，却总不见船影。
Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
^也许，这两种想象都有可信之处。
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。
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。
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去迈阿密修理。
During the journey, their boat began to sink.
^途中，船开始下沉，
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。
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。
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。
The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
^他们用橡皮艇蓄积雨水。
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。
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”。
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，还真的感到遗憾呢！
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