半岛 | bàn dǎo | peninsula | |
岛屿 | dǎo yǔ | island | |
海岛 | hǎi dǎo | island | |
孤岛 | gū dǎo | isolated island | |
群岛 | qún dǎo | group of islands; archipelago |
1 | He clearly didn' t believe we' d traveled so far out of the way just to kill an afternoon looking at an island not very different from any of the others in Nagasaki. | |
2 | You can helicopter to the island. | |
3 | But in the case of water, every man - or, at least, every water basin or region - is an island. | |
4 | Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa. | |
5 | After weeks with no sign of a rescue, survivors try to adjust to life on the island as episodes provide flashbacks to their lives before the crash. |