Scientists believe that creatures on the island were cut off after a land bridge disappeared or that the first animals arrived there on a form of natural rafts that were blown out to sea.

科学家们相信，岛上的生物在大陆桥消失之后与世隔绝，或者第一批到来的动物是攀爬过被大风吹倒的大树，然后漂流到岛上的。

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Land access has been cut off by the collapse of a bridge and the blocking of a back road.

道路交通已经中断，因为有一座桥梁垮塌，另有一条小路也被堵住。

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Take the bridge out and cut off, the island is a tomb.

摧毁桥梁切断他们，这座岛是个坟墓。

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The army hopes to install a pontoon bridge to reach the part of the village cut off since the old bridge was swept away by the mud on Monday.

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The bridge will cut 80 minutes off the road-and-ferry journey from Kobe to Tokushima, one of the bigger towns on the island of Shikoku beyond Awaji, and will be something of a tourist attraction.

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Laumoli said people in outlying villages on one end of the main American Samoa island had been cut off because the connecting bridge was washed away.

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