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description: 新概念英语第三册：Life on a Desert Island。精读、词块回忆、双向译练、句法、逻辑与FSRS复习。
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# 荒岛生活

## 课文学习台 {#study}

### 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.

中文理解：许多人对于荒岛生活有一种不切实际的想法。我们有时想象荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。在那里，生活简单又美好。成熟的水果从树上掉下来，人们根本无需劳动。另一种想法恰恰相反，认为荒岛生活很可怕，要么饿死，要么像鲁滨逊那样，天天盼船来，却总没见船影。也许，这两种都有可信之处。但很少有人能有机会去探个究竟。

* **find out**：查明；弄清；用于发现信息或原因；寻找具体物品通常用 look for。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

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。

### 第2段

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：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。他们驾着一条快报废的小船从维尔京群岛去迈阿密找人修理。途中，船开始下沉。他们迅速把食物、火柴、罐装啤酒往一只橡皮艇上装，在加勒比海上划行了几英里才到了一座小珊瑚岛上。岛上几乎没有一棵树，也没有淡水，但这不成问题 。他们用橡皮艇收集雨水。由于他们随身带了一支捕鱼枪，吃饭也不用发愁。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”。5天后，一艘油轮从那儿路过，搭救了他们，二位才依依不舍地离开。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

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

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