As Xiamen is an island city.

厦门原本就是一座海岛。

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Because there wouldn't have been a refund on our cruise fare if we returned home, we had to pay for a hotel room and meals in the city and an airfare to fly to the first island on the ship's route.

因为如果我们回到家，我们的邮轮费用就不会退了，所以我们不得不在城里住旅馆，吃晚饭，还要支付去邮轮线路上第一个岛的机票钱。

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An urban heat island is created when dark colored man-made materials used in the construction of a city absorb the sun's rays and release that energy back out as heat.

深色的人造建筑材料吸收太阳辐射，并将获取的能量以热量的形式释放出来，城市“热岛效应”随即产生。

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As an island-city-state, it has little land on which to collect enough water for its 4.8m people, and not much room to store it.

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