At last we could see the dim outline of an island.

我们终于能看到一小岛朦胧的轮廓了。

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No child is an island.

没有哪个孩子是一座孤岛。

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It was an island in the middle of the sea.

这是海中央的一个岛。

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A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Louie Zamperini and pilot Russell Allen Phillips survived forty-seven days at sea before their raft washed up on an island.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

As an island continent, Australia is quite literally defined by its 37, 000km of coast.

BBC: Shore thing: Australia��s beach obsession

It is of an island people cut off from the wider world - isolated and exposed.

BBC: Chelsea Flower Show and our island mentality

Vladi cites the recent example of an island in Maine whose owner went into foreclosure.

WSJ: Island Shopping | WSJ.Money Summer 2013