岛国

Once linked by land, the Western Ghats and the island nation of Sri Lanka together make up a biodiversity hotspot—a place with threatened natural habitats that are rich in species, especially plants, that live nowhere else.

曾经连续由陆路，西高止山脉和斯里兰卡的岛国共同制造一个生物品种热点――一个地方构成威胁自然的栖息地那丰富的物种，特别是植物，生活在别的任何地方都不知道。

Once linked by land, the Western Ghats and the island nation of Sri Lanka together make up a biodiversity hotspot—a place with threatened natural habitats that are rich in species, especially plants, that live nowhere else.

曾经与**相连的高止山脉西麓与岛国斯里兰卡共同构成了一个富含其他地方不存在的物种的生物多样性的热点地区，如今却成了受到威胁的自然栖息地。

Once linked by land, the Western Ghats and the island nation of Sri Lanka together make up a biodiversity hotspot—a place with threatened natural habitats that are rich in species, especially plants, that live nowhere else.

曾经连接在陆路，西高止山脉和西里兰卡的岛国一起成为一个生物品种的热点—一个地方构成威胁自然动植物的栖息地那些富有的物种，特别是植物，那生活无处不在。

Once linked by land, the Western Ghats and the island nation of Sri Lanka together make up a biodiversity hotspot—a place with threatened natural habitats that are rich in species, especially plants, that live nowhere else.

曾经连接由陆路，那西部高止山脉和斯里兰卡的岛国一起制造一种生物品种的热点—一个地方受到威胁自然栖息地，那里是富有于物种特别是植物，那生活在任何地方都不知道的地方。

Lacation: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is situated in the Windward Inslands group, approximately160 km weat of Barbados, in the Indies.

地理位置：位于东加勒比海向风群岛中，在巴巴多斯以西约160公里处。由主岛圣文森特和格林纳丁斯岛等组成，为火山岛国。

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, right, performs a Hongi - the Maori greeting of pressing of noses at formal welcome to Auckland for leaders of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum, in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday Aug.

太平洋岛国会议在新西兰奥克兰召开，图为澳大利亚总理霍华德用毛利人礼节与各国领导人打招呼。

Fewer than 460,000 years ago, meltwater from retreating ice sheets topped the land bridge and carved out the Channel.

我们因成为一个岛国民族而自豪。但从地质学上衡量，我们直到最近才能这么说。

The clip caused a storm in the island state; it was the latest sign of resentment towards incomers and evidence that immigration is becoming the city-state's dominant political issue.

这个画面在这个岛国掀起轩然大波。这是新加坡人对新移民忿恨的最近一次表现，而移民也成为这个城市国家主要的政治问题。

900 An island continent located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia combines a wide variety of landscapes.

澳大利亚是一个夹在印度洋和太平洋之间的岛国，它汇聚了不同风格的景色。

Even today Anorthosis is strongly associated with nationalist pro-Greek feeling –then hence it was Greek, rather than Cypriot flags that faced me across the ground.

即使是今天，这家俱乐部也还与这个岛国的民族主义者亲希腊情感紧密联系在一起——这就是为什么在我面前的整个体育场里是希腊国旗而不是塞浦路斯国旗。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。