Robison Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记 Chapter 7-AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENC

I HAD now been in this unhappy island above ten months. All possibility of deliverance from this condition seemed to be entirely ¹ taken from me; and I firmly believe that no human shape had ever set foot upon that place. Having now secured my habitation, as I thought, fully ² to my mind, I had a great desire to make a more perfect discovery of the island, and to see what other productions I might find, which I yet knew nothing of., ,It was on the 15th of July that I began to take a more particular survey of the island itself. I went up the creek ³ first, where, as I hinted, I brought my rafts on shore. I found after I came about two miles up, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little brook ⁴ of running water, very fresh and good; but this being the dry season, there was hardly any water in some parts of it-at least not enough to run in any stream, so as it could be perceived. On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of them, next to the higher grounds, where the water, as might be supposed, never overflowed ⁵, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and very strong stalk. There were divers ⁶ other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues ⁹ of their own, which I could not find out. I searched for the cassava root, which the Indians, in all that climate, make their bread of, but I could find none. I saw large plants of aloes, but did not understand them. I saw several sugar-canes, but wild, and, for want of cultivation ¹⁰, imperfect. I contented ¹¹ myself with these discoveries for this time, and came back, musing ¹² with myself what course I might take to know the virtue ⁸ and goodness of any of the fruits or plants which I should discover, but could bring it to no conclusion; for, in short, I had made so little observation while I was in the Brazils, that I knew little of the plants in the field; at least, very little that might serve to any purpose now in my distress ¹³., ,The next day, the sixteenth, I went up the same way again; and after going something further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and the savannahs cease, and the country become more woody than before. In this part I found different fruits, and particularly I found melons upon the ground, in great abundance, and grapes upon the trees. The vines had spread, indeed, over the trees, and the clusters of grapes were just now in their prime, very ripe and rich. This was a surprising discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warned by my experience to eat sparingly of them; remembering that when I was ashore ¹⁴ in Barbary, the eating of grapes killed several of our Englishmen, who were slaves there, by throwing them into fluxes ¹⁵ and fevers. But I found an excellent use for these grapes; and that was, to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or raisins ¹⁶ are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, wholesome ¹⁷ and agreeable to eat when no grapes could be had., , ,The next day, being the nineteenth, I went back, having made me two small bags to bring home my harvest; but I was surprised, when coming to my heap of grapes, which were so rich and fine when I gathered them, to find them all spread about, trod to pieces, and dragged about, some here, some there, and abundance eaten and devoured ²⁷. By this I concluded there were some wild creatures thereabouts, which had done this; but what they were I knew not. However, as I found there was no laying them up on heaps, and no carrying them away in a sack, but that one way they would be destroyed, and the other way they would be crushed with their own weight, I took another course; for I gathered a large quantity of the grapes, and hung them trees, that they might cure and dry in the sun; and as for the limes and lemons, I carried as many back as I could well stand under., ,When I came home from this journey, I contemplated ²⁸ with great pleasure the fruitfulness of that valley, and the pleasantness of the situation; the security from storms on that side of the water, and the wood: and concluded that I had pitched upon a place to fix my abode ²⁹ which was by far the worst part of the country. Upon the whole, I began to consider of removing my habitation, and looking out for a place equally safe as where now I was situate, if possible, in that pleasant, fruitful part of the island., ,His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作
。,The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气
，然后全部呼出。