岛国

Democracy took root on this rocky island in 930 A.D., when the Althing, predecessor to today's parliament, first met.

早在公元930年，民主就已经植根于这座到处都是石头的岛国，就在那一年阿尔庭议会－－现在国会的前身－－初次建立。

ON DECEMBER 19th, as the small island state of St Kitts and Nevis prepared to celebrate Christmas and the annual Carnival, bells rang out from the prison in the heart of the capital, Basseterre.

2008年12月19日，正当小岛国圣基茨和尼维斯准备庆祝圣诞节与年度狂欢节之际，首都巴斯特尔中心地带的监狱却传来阵阵钟声。

Papua New Guinea:An island country of the southwest Pacific Ocean comprising the eastern half of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the western Solomons, and adjacent islands.

巴布亚新几内亚：太平洋西南部的一个岛国，包括新几内亚东半部、俾斯麦群岛、所罗门群岛的西部和邻近的一些岛屿。

Ike first slammed into the Turks and Caicos and the southernmost Bahamas islands as a Category 4 hurricane, but thousands rode out the storm in shelters and there was no immediate word of deaths on the low-lying islands.

4级艾克最早猛烈袭击了Turks和Caicos群岛以及巴哈马南方大部分地区。但是成千上万的人在避难所躲过了风暴，因此在这个地势很低的岛国也没有出现立即的死亡报告。

Ike first slammed into the Turks and Caicos and the southernmost Bahamas islands as a Category 4 hurricane, but thousands rode out the storm in shelters and there was no immediate word of deaths on the low-lying islands.

艾克首先袭击了T和c，而且引发了巴哈马最南端的四级飓风，但上千人在避难点躲过一劫，并且没有对这个低洼岛国伤亡的即时的报道。

All over the globe, in such disparate places as the troubled Pacific Island states of Oceania, the Panama Canal zone, and out-of-the-way African nations, the Chinese are becoming masters of indirect influence—by establishing business communities and diplomatic outposts, by negotiating construction and trade agreements.

全球各地，从骚乱的大洋洲太平洋岛国、巴拿马运河，到偏远的非洲国家，中国人正试图通过建立贸易共同体和外交前哨主导着间接的影响。

An island country in the Caribbean Sea south of Florida.

古巴：加勒比海的一个岛国，位于佛罗里达以南。

An island country in the central Windward Islands.

向风群岛中部的一个岛国。

Tortuga is a Caribbean Island that is part of Haiti.

托尔是加勒比岛国的是海地。

Our story begins on the Caribbean island of Tortola during the hot summer of seventeen ninety-two.

我们的故事开始于在1792年炎热的夏天对托尔托拉加勒比岛国。

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。