[N-COUNT； N-IN-NAMES 名称名词；名称名词]岛；岛屿 An island is a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water.
...a wonderful day trip to the picturesque island of Gozo...
到风景如画的戈佐岛享受美妙的一日游
We spent a day on Caldey Island.
我们在科尔迪岛上度过了一天。
...the Canary Islands.
加那利群岛
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is·land★/ˈaɪlənd; NAmEˈaɪlənd/noun1★(abbr.I ,I.,Is. )a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water 岛◆We spent a week on the Greek island of Kos.我们在希腊的科斯岛上待了一个星期。◆a remote island off the coast of Scotland一个远离苏格兰海岸的岛☞see also
desert island
2( BrE) =
traffic island
islandislandsis·land/ˈaɪlənd; NAmEˈaɪlənd/
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islandis‧land /ˈaɪlənd/ ●●●S3W2 noun [countable]
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a piece of land completely surrounded by water → insular: The Cayman Islands the Greek island of Creteon an island No cars are allowed on the island. →
desert island
COLLOCATIONSadjectiveslarge/big· Novaya Zemlja is a large island in the Russian Arctic.small/little· It’s a small island, barely twenty miles long.uninhabited (=one where nobody lives)· There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.remote (=far away)· I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland.· The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.volcanic· More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted.· The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.a desert island (=a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives)· He was shipwrecked on a desert island.a tropical island· What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?a Greek/Spanish/Caribbean etc island· Chris told me he was sailing to the Greek islands.an offshore island· The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.island + NOUNisland life· He had become used to the slow pace of island life.an island paradise· She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.somebody’s island home· He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.phrasesa chain/group of islands· Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.the tip of an island (=the thin pointed end of an island)· We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.THESAURUSisland a piece of land completely surrounded by water: · We visited the Greek island of Kos.· In the centre of a lake is a small island.isle an island – used in poetry or in names of islands: · The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan.· It is the most southerly point in the British Isles.· the Windward Isles· the Isle of Wightpeninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land: · There is a coastal path around the peninsula.· the Korean peninsulaarchipelago a group of small islands that are in a line: · He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
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