| 词组 | island |
| 释义 | island /ˈaɪlənd/ noun a piece of land completely surrounded by wateradjectivesa Greek/Spanish/Caribbean etc island They spent the summer sailing round the Greek islands.a tropical island They had their wedding on a tropical island.a desert island (=a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives) It is a story about a man shipwrecked on a desert island.a remote island (=far away) The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.an uninhabited island (=one where nobody lives) There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.a volcanic island (=with a volcano on it) The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.an offshore island (=near the coast of a country) The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.island + nounsan island nation (=a country that is an island) An island nation such as Britain needed a powerful navy.island life He had become used to the slow pace of island life.an island paradise She rented a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.sb’s island home He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.prepositionson an island There are no motor vehicles allowed on the island.phrasesa chain/group of islands Our destination was a chain of islands 60 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.THESAURUS: 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 Wight peninsula 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 peninsula archipelago 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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