12 · 荒岛生活
Life on a Desert Island
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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 comes. 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 cans 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 "ate like kings". When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
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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 comes. 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 cans 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 "ate like kings". When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
我们大多数人对荒岛生活的想象都不太现实。有时，我们把荒岛想象成一种天堂：那里永远阳光灿烂，生活简单而美好，熟透的水果从树上掉下来，人根本不必工作。另一种想象却完全相反：荒岛上的日子苦不堪言，人不是饿死，就是像鲁滨孙那样，苦等一艘永远不会到来的船。两种想象或许都有几分道理，但我们很少有机会亲自验证。
最近，有两个人在一座珊瑚小岛上待了五天，却巴不得能再多住些日子。他们原本要把一艘严重受损的船，从维尔京群岛开到迈阿密修理，途中船却开始下沉。两人赶紧把食物、火柴和几罐啤酒搬进一艘橡皮艇，在加勒比海上划了几英里，来到一座小小的珊瑚岛。岛上几乎没有树，也没有水源，不过这并没难住他们：他们用橡皮艇接雨水，又因随身带着鱼枪，吃的也不愁。每天他们都能捕到龙虾和鱼，用其中一人的话说，简直“吃得像国王一样”。五天后，一艘经过的油轮救起了他们，可两人想到不得不离开，竟都真心觉得遗憾。
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