Pre-reading

What was unexpected by Robinson?

Intensive Reading

We put all the food in my cave. It was safe there. Then the Spanish and Friday’s father could go back. They could bring the other men here.

我们把所有的食物都放在我的洞穴里。那里很安全。然后西班牙人和星期五的父亲就可以回去了。他们可以把其他人带到这里来。

We gave them food and four guns in case they were attacked again. Then they took the canoe and they went away.

我们给了他们食物和四支枪，以防他们再次遭到袭击。然后他们坐上独木舟离开了。

Two days passed since they left when something unexpected happened. I was woken up by Friday at about 6 o’clock in the morning. “Are they here?” I asked Friday. He said, “Not yet. But somebody else is here. I saw a boat.”

他们离开两天后，发生了一件意想不到的事。早上6点左右我就被星期五叫醒了。“他们来了吗?”我问星期五。他说:“还没有。但是其他人来了。我看到了一艘船。”

I went to the top of the nearest hill. I saw the boat. It was clear that these people weren’t the friends who we expected. The boat came from a completely different direction. I could also see a ship. I knew this shape. The ship was English.

我登上了最近的一座小山的山顶。我看到了那条船。很明显，这些人并不是我们所期待的朋友。船从完全不同的方向驶来。我还能看到一艘船。我知道这个形状。这艘船是英国的。

I was confused. It was true that I was happy to see Englishmen after twenty-seven years on the island. But I was also worried. The island wasn’t near ways of English ships. Also, there were no storms recently. So why were they here? Maybe the men were pirates. Maybe they wanted to hide something on the island.

我被搞糊涂了。在岛上生活了二十七年之后，我很高兴见到英国人，这是真的。但我也很担心。这个岛离英国船只很远。而且，最近也没有暴风雨。那他们为什么会在这里?也许这些人是海盗。也许他们想在岛上藏什么东西。

I decided to be very careful. Friday and I stayed hidden and we watched the visitors for a while. The boat came to the beach and I counted eleven men. Soon I saw that they were all Englishmen.

我决定要非常小心。星期五和我躲了起来，观察了一会儿来访者。船开到海滩上，我数了一下有11个人。很快我发现他们都是英国人。

Notes:

1. in case：万一，可以说in case of sth.或in case+that从句，如in case of emergency或in case that something urgent happens。

2. unexpected：adj. /??n?k?spekt?d/ 出于意料的，未曾预料到的。

3. yet：adv. /jet/ 还，仍然，常用于否定句。

4. confused：adj. /k?n?fju?zd/ 困惑的，confuse作动词是“使困惑”。

Exercise:

Why was Robinson worried when he saw the Englishmen?