A rebuilt island also would help return thousands of water birds to the Chesapeake Bay.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

So: the great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.

古埃及，美索不达米亚地区,我们称之为新月沃地，这里的这一小部分,跟罗德州岛差不多大的是迦南。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's like a little island in London that feels very different from everything else,

它像是伦敦的一个小岛，感觉和其它地方不一样，

卡姆登最棒 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It was covered with writing. Many people thought it was a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, telling him the colonists fled the island after an Indian attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He went up North from Denmark to a deserted island of the coast of Norway and stayed there for about three weeks.

他从丹麦北部,来到了挪威海岸的一个荒芜的岛上,并在这里呆了三周。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"That had been a matter of concern for not only Sri Lanka's government but all the areas around a small island after the war,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

He wrote a long and detailed history of Britain, attempting to create the meaning of that little island that he always assumed was God's chosen nation.

他写了一部长而具体的英国史，试图论证这座小岛的重大意义,他一直相信英国是上帝所选的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Well, some examples, later on in history there's a quarrel between Athens and Megara as to who controls the island of Salamis.

好,再举几个例子,后来雅典和麦加拉间,就谁统治萨拉弥斯岛的问题起了争端

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The representative from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu made an emotional appeal for a treaty with legal force.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

and I worked at a record label "Island Def Jam" for a while,

然后我在一家叫做“艾兰德弗詹姆”的唱片公司干了一阵子，

我在好莱坞工作 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica, Amizade places volunteers with a local partner in the small community of Petersfield.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

One of the interesting documents we have is a fragmentary inscription from the Island of Chios.

其中我们发现了一份非常有趣的文献,是在希俄斯岛上的一处残缺碑文

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

They told the commander they thought they were west of a small island near the coast of northwestern France.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Sparta starts at an early point, sends out a colony to southern Italy at some time, probably early, they sent out a colony to an island in the Aegean Sea, Melos, and then they stopped and never sent out another colony.

斯巴达要早一些,某一时期在意大利南部建设过殖民地,也许更早的时候,曾在爱琴海上的岛屿米洛斯殖民,然后他们的殖民活动戛然而止,并从未再开始

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

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

No one knows why. Roanoke is a low, narrow island between the mainland and the islands of the Outer Banks.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

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

VOA: special.2009.08.13

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

In about sixteen fifty-three, a trader named John Farrar and three friends landed on the island from Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Mister Brennan says about one hundred seventy kinds of birds use the island for a nesting place.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In the eighteen sixties, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers won a battle on Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

She was a real lady my mother, she had come to teach in the island school and fell in love with my father.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

The Chazy Reef on the island contains coral, like a reef in a warm, tropical ocean.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

In nineteen ninety-four, engineers and government agencies joined to plan a possible rescue of Poplar Island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They built a clubhouse on a piece of land that had separated from the main island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

One day,Mama and Caroline came back to the island on a boat after Carolines singing lesson.

VOA: special.2009.02.14