Pre-reading

Question: What did Robinson bring to the hiding place?

Intensive Reading

I found that the goat was dead. I looked around the place and I saw that it was very safe. I thought, “It will be a good place near the beach where I could hide.” So I brought some of my guns and some gunpowder there.

我发现山羊死了。我看了看周围，很安全。我想，“这是海滩附近一个藏身的好地方。”所以，我带了一些我的枪和火药在那儿。

It was twenty-three years since my first moment on this island. I was living comfortably now and I had many animals around me. Poll was repeating my name and some other words very nicely. I had two more parrots and I taught the parrots to say my name. I had more than thirty goats.

距离我刚上岛那会已经过去了23年。我现在生活得很舒适，也有很多动物在我周围。波尔会能很好地重复我的名字和其他词语。我又有了两只鹦鹉，我教鹦鹉说我的名字。我有30多只山羊。

It was the last month of my twenty-third year on the island. I was walking to my fields early one morning when I saw fire on the beach.

那是我在岛上第23年的最后一个月。有天清早，我正走在我的田里，忽然看到海滩上有火。

I immediately returned to my house and I prepared all my guns. I took my telescope and I went close to the beach. I hid myself and I watched what was happening on the beach.

我立刻回到我的房子，准备好我所有的枪。我带上我的望远镜，走到海滩附近。我藏了起来，观察海滩上发生了什么。

I saw nine naked people. They had two canoes. It looked like that they were waiting for the high tide.

我看见9个没穿衣服的人。他们有两艘独木舟。看上去他们在等待满潮。

Notes:

1. repeat: v. 重复。

2. immediately: adv. 立即，马上，immediately after表示“紧接着”。

3. naked: adj. 裸露的，不穿衣服的。

4. tide: n. 潮，high tide即“满潮，高潮”，low tide即“低潮，退潮”。

Exercise:

What did Robinson see on the beach that morning?