新概念英语第三册 Lesson 12 Life on a desert island 讲义

Lesson 12 Life on a desert island Part 1: Text 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 tins 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 rain-water 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. Part 2: New words and expressions 1.desert ['dez t, di'z :t] v.(军队中)开小差 2.unrealistic [' nri 'listik] a.不真实的 3.paradise ['p r dais] n.天堂，乐土 4.wretched ['ret id] a.可怜的，艰苦的 5.starve [sta:v] v.挨饿 6.element ['elim nt] n.成分 7.opportunity [' p 'tju:niti] n.机会 8.coral ['k r l] n.珊瑚 9.Virgin ['v :d in] 维尔京群岛 10.Miami [mai' mi] n.迈阿密(美国最南的城市) 11.dinghy n.救生筏，小船 12.Caribbean ['k ri'bi: n] n.加勒比海 13.spear [spi ] 捕鱼枪 14.lobster ['l bst ] n.龙虾 15.tanker ['t k ] n.油轮 16.genuinely ad.由衷地 17.Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨孙·克鲁索(《鲁滨孙漂流记》主人公) ★desert ['dez t, di'z :t] v.(军队中)开小差 1.n. 沙漠；荒地；应得(的惩罚或奖励) reclaim a desert 开垦沙漠 2.v. 遗弃；离弃；放弃；擅离职守 desert one's wife 抛弃妻子 ★unrealistic [' nri 'listik] a.不真实 The proposal struck me as unrealistic. 我感到这个建议不现实。 动词前缀 un un-，用在动词词根（尤其是由名词转化成的动词）前，消除原来动词的功能，表示相反的意思。例如：unlock（开锁）--lock（锁）。 un-，加在动词、名词上构成动词，表示“反动作”的意义。例如：uncouple（去耦）unbend（放直，展开）。 un-，加在形容词、副词、名词及用于作形容词的分词上，表示“不，无，未，非”等否定的意义。例如：unable（不能的）unbalance（不平衡）。 ★paradise ['p r dais] n.天堂，乐土 go to Paradise 去天国 paradise on earth 人间天堂 例：It's poet's paradise. 它是诗人的天堂。 ★wretched ['ret id] a.可怜的，艰苦的 1.She had a wretched time of it at school. 她上学时的日子十分难熬。 2.be wretched about He felt wretched about hurting his friend. 他因伤害了朋友而感到难受。 ★starve [sta:v] v.挨饿 1.starve ... ...