新概念英语（三）

[ti:Not Guilty]

[00:00.44]Lesson 11

[00:02.11]Not guilty

[00:08.86]What was the Customs Officer looking for?

[00:13.22]Customs Officers are quite tolerant these days, but they can still stop you when you are going through the Green Channel and have nothing to declare.

[00:23.00]Even really honest people are often made to feel guilty.

[00:27.47]The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings,

[00:33.67]even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase.

[00:38.97]When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer

[00:44.92]clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

[00:48.39]'Have you anything to declare?' he asked, looking me in the eye.

[00:54.07]'No,' I answered confidently.

[00:57.61]'Would you mind unlocking this suitcase please? '

[01:01.55]'Not at all,' I answered.

[01:03.97]The Officer went through the case with great care.

[01:07.71]All the things I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess.

[01:13.57]I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again.

[01:18.27]Suddenly, I saw the Officer's face light up.

[01:22.34]He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case

[01:26.25]and he pounced on it with delight.

[01:29.35]'Perfume, eh?' he asked sarcastically.

[01:34.68]'You should have declared that.

[01:36.66]Perfume is not exempt from import duty.  '

[01:41.38]'But it isn't perfume, I said. 'It's hair gel.  '

[01:46.96]Then I added with a smile,

[01:49.55]'It's a strange mixture I make myself.

[01:53.36]As I expected, he did not believe me.

[01:57.25]'Try it!' I said encouragingly.

[02:00.96]The Officer unscrewed the cap and put the bottle to his nostrils.

[02:05.46]He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which convinced him that I was telling the truth.

[02:11.96]A few minutes later, I was able to hurry away with precious chalk marks on my baggage.

[ti:Life on a Desert Island]

[00:00.49]Lesson 12

[00:02.27]Life on a desert island

[00:09.61]What was exceptional about the two men's stay on the desert island?

[00:16.24]Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island.

[00:22.19]We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.

[00:29.85]Life there is simple and good.

[00:32.44]Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.

[00:37.52]The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.

[00:41.16]Life on a desert island is wretched.

[00:43.94]You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.

[00:52.49]Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.

[01:00.81]Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer.

[01:09.25]They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.

[01:15.85]During the journey, their boat began to sink.

[01:20.15]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.

[01:33.63]There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.

[01:41.52]The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy.

[01:45.28]As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat.

[01:49.56]They caught lobster and fish every day, and as one of them put it 'ate like kings'.

[01:57.20]When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.

[ti:It's Only Me]

[00:00.63]Lesson 13