}       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.

}       Unrealistic:

不现实的，在现实生活中不容易实现的。

imaginary

想像的

}       Desert:

Is this restaurant always this deserted?

desert 是形容词，本课Life on a desert island 是指荒岛上的生活。这个词加上ed,还是形容词。例句的意思是，这个饭馆是不是总是生意那么差，没人来吃饭。

}       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.

}       Starve:

My stomach is growling.

I’m hungry.

I’m starving.

starve这个词比hungry 程度要深,My stomach is growling.是指我的肚子咕噜咕噜叫。

}       find out:

发现

find/look for

find 是 look for 的结果，如果你找到了，就是find。

}       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.

}      Spend

I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

我想和你度过余生。

That’s gonna be a mistake that I can regret for every

single minute of my rest life.

那将是我余生每一分钟都会后悔的错误。

}      Virgin :

I don’t wanna die a virgin.

        这是电影“Independent State”里面一个女孩对男孩说的话，他们是男女朋友，都还是十几岁的小孩，即是teenager, 世界末日到了，这女孩跟他说，她不想到死了还是一个处女。virgin 这个词完全可以独立作分词

}      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.

}      Sink：

unsinkable/sank/sunk/sunken

sink 这个个词的每一种形式都在这。

}      Loaded:

download/upload

   下载     上传

flash preloading /preloader

     flash 提前上传。一个flash,一个swf文件，在网上需要提前载入能播放。那么，提前载入的进度条叫做 preloader。

}      Matches: 三分钱一盒

火柴。在北美应该是三分钱一盒。

}      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.

}      Collect:

    gather

    collect 在本课的意思是 gather。

collect stamps/ accumulate

这里的collect 比较相近的意思是accumulate。

collect a bill/ receive payment

       这里的collect 是收钱，你给别人账单，然后把钱收回来的意思，就是 collect a bill。
→ collection letter/apology letter/cover letter/complaint letter/referral letter

    这些东西是商务信函里面所包含的，分别是：

    催款信/道歉信/写简历的时候附上的cover letter/意见信/推荐信。

}      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.

}      Lobster：

shrimp

}      Put：

Simply put, …

Let me put it this way, …

}      Genuinely:

genuine Microsoft software

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