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# 12 · 荒岛生活

### 第1段

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.

中文理解：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。

* **an unrealistic picture**：不切实际的想象；form / have / give a picture of…，picture 在此是观念不是照片。

* **a sort of**：一种；某种程度上算是；可表示不完全精确的类比或分类。

* **never have to work**：从来不用工作；never 否定必要性，是不需要，不等于禁止工作。

* **The other side of the picture**：事情的另一面；引入反向评价，随后要说明具体不同在哪里。

* **starve to death**：饿死；to death 说明最终致死的结果。

* **an element of truth**：几分道理；部分真实；承认部分合理，不表示全盘赞同。

* **had the opportunity to**：曾有机会……；have the opportunity to do；若未发生，要保留否定或限制。

* **badly damaged**：严重受损；badly修饰损坏程度；damage作动词不必加介词。

* **have it repaired**：请人把它修好；重点是安排处理，不表明本人动手修。

* **loaded a small rubber dinghy with**：往小橡皮艇里装上；记住装载对象与货物的顺序；也可 load goods onto a vehicle。

* **hardly any**：几乎没有；hardly any 本身带否定意义，不再随意加 not。

* **as one of them put it**：用其中一人的话说；put it 表示措辞或表达，as 后可替换说话的人。

* **had to leave**：不得不离开；had to 是过去的必要，不是想要离开。

#### 原文注释 · Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.

注释：①picture = image。②形近词dessert 是点心。③paradise = heaven = the garden of Eden。④wretched = miserable。⑤starve to death = die of hunger。⑥an element of truth = a bit of truth，另element = ingredient。⑦opportunity = chance。

#### 原文注释 · Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.

注释：①wish 作谓语动词，其后的宾语从句要用虚拟语气，1)表示与现在事实相反的愿望，从句用过去时，be 在正式表达中常用 were，口语也可见 was；2)与过去相反则用过去完成时；3)与将来则用would/could+v.原形。虚拟语气是重点，一定要熟练掌握。②repaired = fixed, mended。③dinghy = small boat。④loaded = filled, stacked。load…with 把…装到… 上。⑤prove to be = turned out to be\[感谢微博网友@---式薇\_\_\_ 指出20210124]。⑥的确是油轮而不是邮轮、游轮；tank 则是水箱、坦克。

#### Summary 摘要

As the two men's boat was damaged, they were taking it to Miami when on the way it began to sink. After loading a rubber dinghy with food, matches and beer, the two men rowed a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There they collected rainwater in the dinghy and caught fish and lobster with a spear gun. For five days, they "ate like kings" until they were rescued by a passing tanker. (80 words)

#### Composition 作文 Shipwrecked 船出事儿了

\[1]The ship went down and everyone was drowned. I was the only one who managed to jump into the sea. I clung to a plank(n.支架，政纲条款) in the water for several hours till I was washed up on a desert island.

\[2]I slept on the beach for a very long time—I can't remember how long. When I woke up, I was hungry and thirsty, so I decided to explore the island. It was uninhabited(a.无人居住的), but I found plenty of fruit which had fallen from the trees. I lived on coconuts and pineapples(菠萝) and there was plenty of fresh spring water(泉水，另spring 也有弹簧之意). I tried to hunt wild animals with my bare hands(small pigs and other creatures), but I failed to catch anything. So I spent my days swimming in the warm clear water and lying in the sun.

\[3]One afternoon while I was lying on the beach as usual, I saw a boat on the horizon(在地平线上，即将来临). I signalled with my white shirt and shouted as loudly as I could. Fortunately ,someone on the boat saw me and I was rescued. Of course, I was pleased to get back to civilization, but I was very sorry to leave this island paradise. (200 words)

\[背景介绍] 《鲁滨逊漂流记》的成书年代，当时特别流行起非常长的标题，该名著的全名为：The life and strange surprizing adventures (of Robinson Crusoe), (of York), (mariner): (who lived \[eight and twenty years] \[all alone] \[in an un-inhabited island] (on the coast of America),) (near the mouth of the great river) (of Oroonoque); \[having been cast on shore by shipwreck], (wherein all the men perished \[but himself].) 关于一名叫做鲁宾逊‧ 克鲁索，出生于约克镇，并且因为船难而独活在一个美洲海岸边、接近奥里诺科河河口的无人小岛长达二十八年的水手的陌生又奇妙的冒险故事

## 学完这一课

用 have formed a picture of… 说明自己已有的印象。

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