Life on a desert islan 荒島生活
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 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.
13. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
島上幾乎沒有一顆樹，也沒有淡水，但這不算什么問題。
語言點:hardly看似肯定，實為否定詞。
14. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
他們用像皮艇蓄積雨水。
語言點1:句子結構分析:in the rubber dinghy作collected water(收集雨水)的方式狀語。
語言點2:含有coolect的短語總結:
collect donations 募捐
collect infromation 收集信息
15. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
由于他們隨身帶了一支捕魚槍，因此，吃飯不愁。
語言點1:句子機構分析:as以電腦原因狀語從句，交代“吃飯不愁”的原因。
語言點2:plenty to eat為省略的說法，補充完整應為:plenty of food to eat。動詞不定式to eat作定語，修飾food。
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 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.
13. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.
島上幾乎沒有一顆樹，也沒有淡水，但這不算什么問題。
語言點:hardly看似肯定，實為否定詞。
14. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.
他們用像皮艇蓄積雨水。
語言點1:句子結構分析:in the rubber dinghy作collected water(收集雨水)的方式狀語。
語言點2:含有coolect的短語總結:
collect donations 募捐
collect infromation 收集信息
15. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.
由于他們隨身帶了一支捕魚槍，因此，吃飯不愁。
語言點1:句子機構分析:as以電腦原因狀語從句，交代“吃飯不愁”的原因。
語言點2:plenty to eat為省略的說法，補充完整應為:plenty of food to eat。動詞不定式to eat作定語，修飾food。