访谈录 2008-04-19&4-21 我为自己建了一座岛屿

Castaway like Robinson Crusoe and even Tom Hanks didn’t attempt to living in an exile¹. But this next guy did. * couldn’t find an island to call the zone he created an unbelievable floating paradise² at of these.

 

This man has given up his job, his family and all of his material possessions to run away and live on a seclude³ island paradise. A paradise made from plastic bottles.

 

It’s taken me two and half years from the beginning for the first bottle collection to get this point now. And I’m quite happy with the progress.

 

It was over two years ago Richey Sora gave up job as copier and moved to Mexico in search of a simple life. He made this way to the sandy shore of Cancu. He started collecting bottles for cash and that’s what came up with an unbelievable idea----to build himself an island he could claim as his home.

 

“The collecting of the bottles I start by hand for just going around the local town picking the… “

 

“Have a great day.”

 

“Cheers. Thanks.”

 

This floating island is linked to a professional tennis court. Richey gathered thousands of bottles stored stuffing to create the foundation.

 

“But this is the * of three years’ work. It took me the first six months to get a base which was supposed, that’s about 50 meters across and about 20 meters long. It took me about four months to get a base around seven or eight meters then I started to put plans on.”

 

Richey plays bamboo and plywood on top of foundation of bottles, packing back for over and over every day scooping⁴ sand off the shore to build his own private beach. But the biggest challenge was trying to grow plants on the plastic bottle batch⁵.

 

These mangos were planted just few months ago. And they are growing really, really well you could feel how. These mangos were planted alive for five months ago. They got stings⁶ on the trees, *trees. This is a lemon tree.

 

Today this realive survival⁷ is totally self-sufficient, growing for nanners, coconuts⁸, spinach⁹, omens¹⁰ and tomatoes on this island. He even also built a soul cooker, collets rain to water those plants. He even made a washing machine out of a classic drum that roves in the waves. This is one island castaway who never needs to leave. But it’s true be told Richey is not alone on this island.

 

“We have quite a few happens on the island the moment. It’s me, my cat, Boneytar, and my second cat, Easy, the little dog, Rainbow, two chickens, Brownian and Lucky, and the dog, the head of the island, Roresong.”

 

This bamboo island’s bottles have proved to be quite seaward well, surviving two hurricanes and several troublesome storms. And now even the Mexican government wants recognize the private paradise to claim the island as Mexican soil for tourists to visit. But Richey has another idea for his paradise. Every day he asks bamboo to make his island bigger. His goal is for one day out to see and eventually drift around the world on the island he build with his own two hands.

 

“One day, we’ll set out on the ocean and become a small floating country.”

1 exile   

n.流放，被流放者；vt.流放，放逐，使流亡

参考例句：

• After an exile of eight years her uncle returned to Cairo.她叔叔背井离乡8年后返回开罗。
• Napoleon was sent into exile on an island.拿破仑被流放到一个岛上。

2 paradise   

n.伊甸乐园，天堂

参考例句：

• My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院，那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
• On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。

3 seclude   

vi.使隔离，使孤立，使隐退

参考例句：

• You can't seclude yourself from the world.人不能与世隔绝。
• To find a quiet place to study,Bruce had to seclude himself in the attic.布鲁斯不得不躲在阁楼上，才能寻得一个安静的地区性方读书。

4 scooping   

n.捞球v.抢先报道( scoop的现在分词 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• Heated ice cream scoop is used for scooping really cold ice cream. 加热的冰淇淋勺是用来舀非常凉的冰淇淋的。 来自互联网
• The scoop-up was the key phase during a scooping cycle. 3个区间中，铲取区间是整个作业循环的关键。 来自互联网

5 batch   

n.一批(组，群)；一批生产量

参考例句：

• The first batch of cakes was burnt.第一炉蛋糕烤焦了。
• I have a batch of letters to answer.我有一批信要回复。

6 stings   

螫伤处( sting的名词复数 )； （某些昆虫的）毒刺； （身体或心灵的）剧痛； （警察为抓捕罪犯而设的）圈套

参考例句：

• Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it. 谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
• This cream contains a mild analgesic to soothe stings and bites. 这种乳膏含有一种性能平和的止痛剂，能缓解被螫咬后的疼痛。

7 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

8 coconuts   

n.椰子( coconut的名词复数 )；椰肉，椰果

参考例句：

• We found a bountiful supply of coconuts on the island. 我们发现岛上有充足的椰子供应。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Coconuts provide "meat", drink, oil, soap and fiber for fishing line. 椰子提供“肉类”，饮料、油脂、肥皂和做钓（鱼）丝的纤维。 来自百科语句

9 spinach   

n.菠菜

参考例句：

• Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
• You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。

10 omens   

n.前兆，预兆( omen的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The omens for the game are still not propitious. 这场比赛仍不被看好。 来自辞典例句
• Such omens betide no good. 这种征兆预示情况不妙。 来自辞典例句