People have sailed around the world in quite small boats. It is not an easy thing. Sometimes the weather goes bad. That will be the end of a boat and the end of everyone in it. Accidents can happen easily and quickly.
人们曾在很小的船上周游世界。那可不是一件容易的事．有时天气（weather）变坏。那将是小船的末日。也是船上每个人的末日。事故（accident）发生地报容易也很快。
One family had an accident with a big fish. The fish swam under their boat and bit holes in it. The water came into the boat, and of course, the boat soon went down. However, these people had another smaller boat — a life-boat, and they all got into that. They lived and hoped for many days. They woke and slept, and they always, hoped… At last a ship found them.
有个家庭曾遭遇过一条大鱼（fish）导致的事故。那鱼游到他们的船下咬了几个洞．水涌入船里，当然，船很快下沉了。然而，这些人还有另一个更小的船——救生艇，他们都上了那艘救生艇。他们期盼（hope）着坚持了许多天，他们醒了（wake）又睡（sleep），却总是怀着希望…最后一艘轮船（ship）发现了他们。
How do people live in a very small life-boat? Perhaps far weeks or months. They must be strong in every way. They must have hope — they must want to live. But you cannot eat and drink hope.
人们在这么小的船里怎么生活呢？很可能度过几周或数月。他们必须在各个方面都很坚强。他们必须有希望——他们必须有活下去的愿望。但你总不能吃喝希望吧。
You cannot drink sea water. Drink a lot of sea water — you will quickly die. Sailors can drink rain water. They must catch rain water in their boat. They must also catch fish and birds for food. Lifeboats do not often carry a cooker, and so the sailors cannot cook their food. Raw fish and bird-meat is not very nice. But there won’t be any choice in a life-boat! The sailors must eat raw food or they will die.
你无法喝海水，喝大量海水后人很快就会死亡。水手可以喝雨（rain）水。他们必须接雨水存在船里。他们还要捉鱼和鸟当作食物。救生艇里一般不会有厨具（cooker），因此水手们不能烹饪食物。生鱼和鸟的肉味道不是很好。但在救生艇上别无选择（choice）！水手们必须吃生的食物，否则（or）他们只有死路一条。
What do people think about in a life-boat? They think about land, a warm bed, dry clothes, clean water and food.
在救生艇里人们又会想些什么呢？他们想念陆地（land）、温暖的床（bed）、干爽的（dry）衣服、干净的水和食物。
0 条评论