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鲁宾逊漂流记-5 Learning to live alone
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  • I still needed a lot of things. ‘Well,’I said,‘I'm going to have to make them. ’So,every day,I worked.

    First of all,I wanted to make my cave1 bigger. I carried out stone from the cave,and after many days' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill. Then I needed a table and a chair,and that was my next job. I had to work on them for a long time. I also wanted to make places to put all my food,and all my tools and guns. But every time I wanted a piece of wood,I had to cut down a tree. It was long,slow,difficult work,and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools. There was no hurry. I had all the time in the world.

    I also went out every day,and I always had my gun with me. Sometimes I killed a wild animal,and then I had meat to eat.

    But when it got dark,I had to go to bed because I had no light. I couldn't read or write because I couldn't see. For a long time,I didn't know what to do. But in the end,I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light.

    The weather on my island was usually very hot,and there were often storms and heavy rain. The next June,it rained all the time,and I couldn't go out very often. I was also ill for some weeks,but slowly,I got better. When I was stronger,I began to go out again. The first time I killed a wild animal,and the second time I caught a big turtle.

    I was on the island for ten months before I visited other parts of it. During those months I worked hard on my cave and my house and my fence2. Now I was ready to find out more about the rest of the island.

    First,I walked along the side of a little river. There,I found open ground without trees. Later,I came to more trees with many different fruits. I decided3 to take a lot of the fruit,and to put it to dry in the sun for a time. Then I could keep it for many months.

    That night I went to sleep in a tree for the second time,and the next day I went on with my journey4. Soon I came to an opening5 in the hills. In front of me,everything was green,and there were flowers everywhere. There were also a lot of differ-ent birds and animals. I saw that my house was on the worst side of the island. But I didn't want to move from there. It was my home now. I stayed away for three days,and then I came home. But I often went back to the other,greener side of the island.

    And so my life went on. Every month I learnt to do or to make something new. But I had troubles and accidents too. Once there was a terrible storm with very heavy rain. The roof6 of my cave fell in,and nearly killed me!I had to build it up again with many pieces of wood.

    I had a lot of food now. I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun. So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun. I learnt to make pots to keep my food in. But I wanted very much to make a harder,stronger pot—a pot that would not break in a fire. I tried many times,but I could not do it. Then one day I was lucky. I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire. They changed colour,but did not break. I left them there for many hours,and when they were cold again,I found that they were hard and strong. That night I was very happy. I had hot water for the first time on the island.

    By then,I also had my own bread. That was luck,too. One day I found a little bag. We used7 it on the ship,to keep the chickens' food in. There was still some of the food in the bag,and I dropped some of it onto the ground. A month later I saw something bright green there,and after six months I had a very small field of corn8. I was very excited. Perhaps now I could make my own bread!

    It was easy to say,but not so easy to do. It is a lot of work to make bread from corn. Many people eat bread,but how many people can take corn from a field and make bread out of it without help?I had to learn and to make many new things,and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread.

    During all this time I never stopped thinking9 about escape10. When I travelled across to the other side of the island,I could see the other islands,and I said to myself,‘Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day. ’

    So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree,and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work,but about six months later,I had a very fine canoe11. Next,I had to get it down to the sea. How stupid12 I was!Why didn't I think before I began work?Of course,the canoe was too heavy. I couldn't move it!I pulled and pushed and tried everything,but it didn't move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

    That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe,but I did not try to es-cape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey,and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now,not my prison,and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later,I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there,and so I had two homes.

    My life was still busy from morning to night. There were al-ways things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange,it is true,but they kept me dry in the rain.

    I kept food and tools at both my houses,and also wild goats13. There were many goats on the island,and I made fields with high fences14 to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me,and soon I had goat's milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my cornfields. And so many years went by.

     单词标签: cave  fence  decided  journey  opening  roof  used  corn  thinking  escape  canoe  stupid  goats  fences 


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    1 cave [keɪv] eUDyu   第3级
    n.洞穴;窑洞
    参考例句:
    • Where's the entrance to the cave? 这个洞穴的入口在哪里?
    • A great cave opened out before them. 一个大洞穴展现在他们面前。
    2 fence [fens] ykexe   第4级
    n.围墙,剑术;v.用篱笆围住,练习剑术,防护;[计算机]栅栏
    参考例句:
    • They put a fence around the garden. 他们在园子的周围建起了篱笆。
    • The thief jumped himself over a fence and escaped. 贼纵身跃过篱笆逃走了。
    3 decided [dɪˈsaɪdɪd] lvqzZd   第7级
    adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
    参考例句:
    • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents. 这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
    • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting. 英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
    4 journey [ˈdʒɜ:ni] k3mx1   第3级
    n.旅行,旅程;路程
    参考例句:
    • She will give up this journey. 她将放弃这次旅行。
    • The journey home was great fun. 回家的旅程非常有趣。
    5 opening [ˈəʊpnɪŋ] Umwzkg   第3级
    n.开始,口,穴,揭幕;adj.开始的
    参考例句:
    • Instead of opening the gate, we climbed over it. 我们没有开门,而是从门顶上爬过去的。
    • There was an opening in the wall. 墙上有个洞。
    6 roof [ru:f] KXmxA   第3级
    n.屋顶;vt.给...覆以屋顶,覆盖
    参考例句:
    • A cat is on the roof. 一只小猫在屋顶上。
    • Move back! The roof is falling! 往后退,屋顶要塌了!
    7 used [ju:st] ajBwV   第3级
    adj.用旧了的,旧的;习惯于…;过去惯/经常;v. 用;习惯(use的过去式)
    参考例句:
    • I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day. 我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
    • He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour. 他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。
    8 corn [kɔ:n] zo2zm   第3级
    n.玉米,小麦,谷物
    参考例句:
    • The corn was grown in America. 这个玉米是在美国种植的。
    • Was the camel carrying corn? 那头骆驼驮的是谷物吗?
    9 thinking [ˈθɪŋkɪŋ] ggzz2u   第3级
    n.思考,思想;adj.思考的,有理性的;vbl.想,思考
    参考例句:
    • All thinking men will protest against it. 凡是有思想的人都会抗议这件事。
    • Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols. 思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的。
    10 escape [ɪˈskeɪp] Uijzi   第3级
    vi.逃跑,逃避;逃过..的注意;逸出;n.逃跑
    参考例句:
    • We had to break the door out to escape from the fire. 我们不得不把门砸开以逃避火灾。
    • He didn't allow any word to escape his lips. 他守口如瓶。
    11 canoe [kəˈnu:] DsRzV   第5级
    n.独木舟;vi.乘独木舟,划独木舟
    参考例句:
    • They slid the canoe down to the water. 他们使小舟滑到水中。
    • It is only the second time he has been in a canoe. 这仅是他第二次乘小游艇。
    12 stupid [ˈstju:pɪd] ttBwD   第3级
    adj.愚蠢的,笨拙的,麻木的,无趣味的;n.傻瓜
    参考例句:
    • The boy is too stupid. 那个男孩太笨了。
    • He must be really stupid. 那他一定很傻。
    13 goats [ɡəuts] 9037a098b8b835cde8c3e2005fce6d3c   第3级
    n.山羊( goat的名词复数 );老色鬼;色狼;好色之徒
    参考例句:
    • Chickens,goats and rabbits were offered for barter at the bazaar. 在集市上,鸡、山羊和兔子被摆出来作物物交换之用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The time had come to drive the goats homeward. 该是把山羊赶回家去的时候了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    14 fences [fensiz] 8bc89cf72d33a5e53cc1ffda4b14d3c7   第4级
    n.栅栏( fence的名词复数 );(障碍赛马中的)障碍物;买卖赃物者;击剑(术)v.围以栅栏( fence的第三人称单数 );搪塞;支吾;回避
    参考例句:
    • It's a pity we didn't mend our fences with the colonel. 可惜我们还没有和上校先生调整好关系。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • He fences well, as she had noticed before. 正如她以前观察到的一样,他善于周旋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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