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.

4. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.

成熟的水果從樹上掉下來，人們根本無需勞動。

語言點:句子結構分析:and并列連接兩個想象中“島上生活”的樣子。

5. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.

另一種想法恰恰相反。

語言點1:句子結構分析:這是一個典型的“主系表”結構的句子。

語言點2:這是一個很好的表示轉折的句子，比使用however,but,still要好得多，顯得不那么生硬。

6. Life on a desert island is wretched.

認為荒島生活很可怕。

語言點1:句子結構分析:On a desert island作life的定語。

語言點2:語言學習重在模仿，根據這個例句，我們也可以仿照它寫出極具美感的好句子，例如:

Life on desert island is hard. 荒島生活頗為艱苦。