Lesson 12 Life on a desert island

Lesson 12 Life on a desert island

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

What was exceptional about the two men's stay on the desert island?

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'.

                                                                                            ( put ---此处相当于 express 或 describe )

When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.

 

·        form 强调一个潜移默化的过程     forman opinion /impression/idea

·        unrealistic– 不现实的  unreal – 不真实的  imaginary ---想象的

·        Desert 做名词和动词发音不同  加上ed还是形容词 Is this restaurant always deserted ?

·        The other side of coin/story

·        Starve to death,   starve for sth.渴望得到… the kids starve for attention.

·        an element of   surprise/danger/doubt/risk/caution/jealousy/truth

·        opportunity cost 机会成本

·        load A with B ,   load a CD/bullet

·        paradise

·        collect  à gather

collect a bill->receive payment   collect stamps ->accumulate  

·        genuinely

Try to make your CV a narrative of your professional life, rather than a generic laundry list. Tailor each resume or CV toward the specific job and company to which you are applying to appear knowledgeable and genuinely interested. 要努力让简历讲述你的职场生活而不是流水账一样。要根据具体的工作和应聘的公司来修改自己的简历，让它们看上去很有见识，让别人真正有兴趣去看。

           a laundry list  流水帐

·         as read as a lobster 非常红

             Whenever he gets mad, he becomes as read as a lobster.

·        sorry – 指人同情或悲哀     unhappy – 侧重精神上的不快乐或失望

        miserable  –由于外部因素造成精神痛苦或折磨  

         wretched   – 指因疾病或担忧造成的痛苦比miserable 更强烈

·        put in another way 换言之          put it simple 简言之

put it precisely       准确地说        put it bluntly  坦率地说

·        定语从句

Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.

We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.

You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.