英语释义

1. a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent

2. something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded position: such as

3. a usually raised area within a thoroughfare, parking lot, or driveway used especially to separate or direct traffic

4. a superstructure on the deck of a ship (such as an aircraft carrier)

5. a kitchen counter that is approachable from all sides

6. an isolated group or area especially an isolated ethnological group

7. to make into or as if into an island

8. to dot with or as if with islands

9. isolate

10. an area of land that is surrounded by water

11. a raised area within a road, parking lot, or driveway that is used to separate or direct traffic

12. a separate raised area with a flat surface on which food is prepared in a kitchen

13. an area of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent

14. something like an island in its isolation
We have a counter island in our kitchen.

15. an isolated anatomical structure, tissue, or group of cells

片语

Society Islands社会群岛（法属波利尼西亚的群岛之一）

faroe islands法罗群岛（位于北大西洋）

galapagos islands加拉巴哥群岛（位于厄瓜多尔西部）

hawaiian islands夏威夷群岛

leeward islands背风群岛（西印度群岛中小安的列斯群岛北部的群岛）

philippine islands菲律宾群岛

diaoyu islands钓鱼岛

cook islands库克群岛

british virgin islands英属维尔京群岛（英国在小安的列斯群岛最北部的殖民地，首府罗德城）

group of islands[地理] 群岛

Bonin Islands小笠原群岛

canary islands加那利群岛；金丝雀群岛

pacific islands太平洋岛屿

shetland islands设德兰群岛（英国苏格兰北部群岛）

Ionian Islands爱奥尼亚群岛（希腊西岸沿海的长列岛群）

south sea islands南太平洋诸岛

aleutian islands阿留申群岛（位于阿拉斯加半岛尖端的弧形群岛）

Pelagie Islands佩推杰群岛

Virgin Islands维尔京群岛

Palm IslandsThe Palm Islands are an artificial archipelago (islands) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), off the coast in the Persian Gulf. Major commercial and residential infrastructure will be constructed by Nakheel Properties, a property developer in the UAE.

Aleutian Islands阿留申群岛（位于阿拉斯加半岛尖端的弧形群岛）

windward islands向风群岛，温德华群岛

marshall islands马绍尔群岛（位于西太平洋）

solomon islands所罗门群岛

Rock Islands洛克群岛

Marquesas Islands马克萨斯群岛

virgin islands维尔京群岛

falkland islands福克兰群岛

ryukyu islands琉球群岛

英汉例句

• the jagged ramparts of the mainland and islands unsoiled by human footprints drift past, an endless drama wrought in ice and snow.

  未被人类踏足的大陆和岛屿的粗糙的城墻在眼前漂过，一出永不落幕的戏剧在冰雪中生成。

• we had no maps, no gps and no knowledge of the dozens of identical-looking islands around us, but i had to go somewhere.

  我们没有地图，没有gps，也不了解我们周围那一群看起来一样的岛屿，但是我必须去某个地方。

• 「we have a very clear view of what「s going on, and these islands provide that,」 he says. 「it puts it on us.

  「我们很清楚地知道发生了什么事，因为这些岛屿提供了证据，」他说，「自然界把其本来面目展现在我们目前。

• you might see me all over except in polar areas and islands i can」t fly to.

  除了极地和我不能飞到的岛屿，你也许在世界各处都能看得到我。

• this place gets its name from a creek indian word meaning 」land of trembling earth, " which refers to the unstable floating islands that are common within the swamp.

  这个地方是以意思为“颤抖的土地」小溪的印第安语来作为它的名字，指的是沼泽地区常见的那种不稳定的浮动岛屿。

• switzerland may not be a tropical island, but this region has multiple islands under direct threat.

  瑞士可能不是一个热带岛屿，但这个区域却有许多岛屿受到直接威胁。

• its peaks now show as islands scattered along the coast.

  它们的峰顶显现为沿着海岸散布的岛屿。

• i have, in the past, talked of buying land elsewhere as an 「insurance policy」 should our islands disappear under the sea.

  虽然在过去我提到过在其他地方购买土地，以作为我们的岛屿可能消失在大海后的「保险单」。

• my experience of meditation is that it creates islands of stillness.

  我冥想的经验告诉我，它会创造静止的岛屿。

• but it was on the galapagos islands off the coast of ecuador that darwin found creatures that made him wonder about how species develop and change.

  但，正是在厄瓜多尔海岸之外的加拉帕哥斯群岛，达尔文发现了一些生物，这使他想到了物种是如何发展和变化的。

• tour operators offer trips to the islands from bali, while the animals can be seen at a number of zoos, including london.

  旅行社提供从巴厘岛去那些岛的旅程，你也可以在许多动物园中看到这种动物，包括伦敦。

• but like shoals in a storm, these islands seem to attract trouble.

  然而就像风暴中的浅滩，这群岛屿似乎在吸引着麻烦。

• but the chemical lingers in the sediments and waters of the channel islands environment, sharpe said.

  但这种化学物质残留在海峡群岛周围环境中的沉积物和水域中。

• it was one of the key spices that give the spice islands their name, and some historians link its popularity in the spice trade to the hallucinatory effects that result from ingesting large amounts.

  它是一种重要的香料，赋予了香料群岛现在的名字，而这与一些历史学家将其香料贸易的普及归功于大量摄取后引起的致幻作用有关。

• zhoushan islands is the underseas garden in which the oysters are planted, cultivated and harvested.

  舟山群岛是放养、培育并收获牡蛎的海底养殖场。

• the islands are there.

  那些岛屿在那里。

• not everything, everywhere is in flux. but it feels as though the harder scientists look at the world, the fewer islands of stability they find.

  尽管不是处处在变、事事更新，然而似乎是：科学家们越仔细严谨地关注这个世界，那么他们就越不会发现稳定不变的岛屿。

• was 「empire」 itself a matter of land and settlement or, as he thought, of ports and islands and trading opportunities?

  「帝国」本身是关于国土或殖民地的问题还是如他所想的关于港口、岛屿和贸易机会的问题？

• i think we had very fruitful discussions not only about africa but also pacific islands and areas in asia where we can cooperate.

  我认为我们进行了卓有成效的讨论，不仅围绕非洲而且围绕太平洋群岛以及亚洲其他地区都可以开展合作。

相似词

isle(Isle)人名；(英)艾尔

islet小岛