新概念英語第三冊lesson12生詞及短語

新概念英語第三冊
    Lesson 12
    Life on a desert island
    【New words and expressions】 生詞和短語
    ★desert island
    荒島
    desert: 沙漠　背棄，遺棄
    dessert: 甜點
    ★unrealistic
    adj. 不真實
    ★paradise
    n. 天堂，樂士
    A lot of people imagine the USA as their paradise.
    heaven: 天堂，天國，也指死亡
    ★wretched
    adj. 可憐的，艱苦的
    miserable
    lead a wretched/miserable/terrible life
    ★starve
    v. 挨餓
    starve to death
    ★element
    n. 成分
    ★opportunity
    n. 機會
    golden opportunity
    Opportunity knocks only once.
    chance: 表機會時可以與opportunity互換，表可能性時則不可
    There is a chance that I will see him
    The chances are that he will be elected the president.
    +of,to
    ★coral
    n. 珊瑚
    ★Virgin Islands
    維爾京群島
    ★Miami
    n. 邁阿密(美國最南的城市)
    ★dinghy
    n. 救生筏，小船
    ★Caribbean
    n. 加勒比海
    ★spear gun
    捕魚槍
    ★lobster
    n. 龍蝦
    ★tanker
    n. 油輪
    ★genuinely
    adv. 由衷地
    He is genuinely thankful to me
    genuine(adj.)
    (n.)genuineness
    ★Robinson Crusoe
    魯濱孫.克魯索(小說《魯濱孫漂流記》主人公) 荒島生活