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[00:12.59]12 荒岛生活
[00:25.18]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:29.36]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:33.54]What was exceptional about the two men's stay on the desert island?
[00:40.03]两个男人的荒岛生活有什么异常之处?
[00:46.52]Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.
[00:49.95]我们许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法.
[00:53.37]We sometimes imagine a desert island
[00:53.75]我们有时想象
[00:54.13]to be a sort of paradisewhere the sun always shines.
[00:56.96]荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂.
[00:59.79]Life there is simple and good.
[01:01.82]在那里,生活简单又美好.
[01:03.84]Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
[01:06.87]成熟的水果从树上掉下来,人们根本无需劳动
[01:09.90]The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
[01:12.19]另一种想法恰恰相反,
[01:14.48]Life on a desert island is wretched.
[01:17.15]认为荒岛生活很可怕,
[01:19.83]You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe,
[01:22.70]要么饿死,要么像鲁滨孙那样,
[01:25.58]waiting for a boat which never comes.
[01:27.95]天天盼船来,却总不见船影.
[01:30.33]Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures,
[01:33.36]也许,这两种想象都有可信之处.
[01:36.39]but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
[01:38.96]但很少有人能有机会去弄个究竟
[01:41.54]Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island
[01:45.01]最近有两个人在一座珊瑚岛上呆了5天
[01:48.49]wished they had stayed there longer.
[01:50.41]他们真希望在那儿再多呆一些日子.
[01:52.33]They were taking a badly damaged boat
[01:55.06]他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船
[01:57.79]from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
[02:00.62]从维尔京群岛去迈阿密修理.
[02:03.45]During the journey,their boat began to sink.
[02:06.33]途中,船开始下沉.
[02:09.20]They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food,matches,and cans of beer
[02:12.94]他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只求生筏上装
[02:16.67]and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean
[02:19.04]然后在加勒比海上划行了几英里,
[02:21.40]until they arrived at a tiny coral island.
[02:23.99]到了一座珊瑚岛上.
[02:26.57]There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water,
[02:30.15]岛上几乎没有一棵树,也没有淡水,
[02:33.73]but this did not prove to be a problem.
[02:35.86]但这不算什么问题.
[02:37.99]The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
[02:40.31]他们用橡皮艇蓄积雨水.
[02:42.64]As they had brought a spear gun with them,
[02:44.91]由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪,
[02:47.18]they had plenty to eat.
[02:48.66]因此,吃饭不愁
[02:50.14]They caught lobster and fish every day,
[02:52.41]他们天天捕捉龙虾和鱼
[02:54.68]and as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.
[02:57.32]正如其中一位所说,"吃得像国王一样好".
[02:59.96]When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,
[03:02.60]5天后,一条油轮从那儿路过,搭救了他们.
[03:05.23]both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
[03:08.36]不得不离开那个荒岛时,还真的感到遗憾呢
[03:11.48]This is the analysis of the text.以下为课文讲解。
[04:26.96]以下为课文讲解。
[05:42.44]Part 1
[08:52.09]Part 2
[11:20.25]Part 3