当我参观位于吉米岛的切萨皮克湾(人口:2 )的桑伯恩的那个类似谷仓的工作室的时候,他告诉我“所有事情都要保密 ”。
"The whole thing is about the power of secrecy," Sanborn tells me when I visit his studio, a barnlike structure on Jimmy Island in Chesapeake Bay (population: 2).
如果米诺斯不进攻雅典,他就会每9年把7个男孩和7个女孩送到克里特岛,让米诺陶吃掉。
If Minos didn't attack Athens, he would send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be eaten by the Minotaur.
这两项活动都以航海为基础,这是腓尼基人从他们的海上前辈——克里特岛的米诺斯人那里发展出来的一种能力。
Both of these activities were based on seafaring, an ability the Phoenicians developed from the example of their maritime predecessors, the Minoans of Crete.
所有进入摩艾的能量和资源——其中一些有10米高,7000多公斤重——都来自这个岛。
All the energy and resources that went into the moai—some of which are ten metres tall and weigh over 7,000 kilos—came from the island itself.
例如,1919年,在加拿大温哥华岛附近捕获了一条座头鲸,它有一对长达1米多的腿状附肢,还有完整的整套肢骨。
In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
飓风以高达每小时220公里的速度和席卷堰洲岛高达4.5米的海潮袭击了加尔维斯顿。
(220 km/h) and 15-ft. (4.5 m) tides that swept over Barrier Island.
屋久岛是一处方圆501平方米(193平方里)的圆形岛屿,在鹿儿岛以南耸立出海面,位于九洲岛的南端。
Yakushima is a round island with an area of 501 square meters (193 square miles), which is in the south of Kagoshima and to the south of Kyushu.
由里克·吉莱斯皮的带领下,车队正准备下月在旅途太平洋加德纳岛寻找失踪的美国航空传奇阿米莉·亚尔·哈特的线索。
Led by ric Gillespie, the team are preparing to journey next month to Gardner Island in the Pacific to find clues of missing American aviation legend Amelia Earhart.
随着时间过去,如果这种状态不被过度破坏,它将维持下去,甚至可以从象1998年帕尔米拉岛被漂白那样的打击中恢复。
It will remain so over time, even recovering from shocks like the bleaching Palmyra experienced in 1998, if it is not unduly disturbed.
奔巴岛虽然最高海拔只有95米(310英尺),但是它的中部有一明显的边缘地带,是被一些小的峡谷切断,因此比桑给巴尔岛显得多山。
Pemba Island has a central ridge, cut by several small valleys, and appears hillier than Zanzibar Island, although the highest point on Pemba is only 95m (310ft) above sea-level.
于是1979年三月,第一所学校在南米拉杜卢岛成立。
The first was opened in South Miladhunmadulu Atoll in March 1979.
随着散发着硫磺味的海面持续蒸腾,位于艾尔希洛岛(加那利群岛的南端岛屿)附近的岩浆已有20米高。
Magma off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been spewing 20 metres high as the sea boils with a smell of sulphur.
航空调度员罢工已经导致了马德里、马略卡岛、米诺卡岛、伊比沙岛加纳利群岛、加利西亚地区和所有西班牙航空机场的关闭。
The action has caused the closure of the airports of Madrid, Mallorca, Minorca and Ibiza, the Canary Islands and in the region of Galicia, as well as causing the closure all Spanish airspace.
最近,纽芬兰岛海岸的海床之下1.6千米深处取出的砂心泥中,发现了活着的细胞,其中很多是热球菌纲火球菌属的古菌。
Recently, living cells - many of which are Archaea from the Pyrococcus and Thermococcus genera - were found in a mud core taken from 1.6 km below the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.
保护区将覆盖玛丽安娜岛、巴尔米拉环礁和罗斯环礁周边的珊瑚礁、岛屿和海洋。
Reefs, islands, and the ocean around the Mariana islands, Palmyra Atoll and Rose Atoll will be covered.
兰卡威天空之桥位于马来西亚的兰卡威群岛,高悬于海平面700米之上,在大山中横跨125米。 立于桥上,游人可以饱览安达曼海和泰国塔如涛岛的绝美景色。
The Langkawi sky-bridge in Malaysia is suspended at 700 metres above sea level and spans 125 across the mountains, offering magnificent views of the Andaman Sea and Thailand’s Tarutao Island.
从“螺旋岛2代”的名字中可以看出来,这是他第二次实践自己的梦想了:第一代螺旋岛在2005年遭遇了飓风艾米丽,冲向陆地时撞毁了。
As its name implies, Spiral Island II is the second incarnation of the dream: the first island wrecked against the mainland in Hurricane Emily in 2005.
2009年,对松岛冰川进行了一次卫星测量研究,这是在南极洲最大卫星测量之一,显示冰面正以每年16米的速度下降。
In 2009, a study of satellite measurements of Pine Island Glacier, which is one of the largest in Antarctica, revealed the surface of the ice was falling at a rate of up to 16m a year.
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。
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.
屋久岛最为典型的自然景观要属古屋久杉树,树龄均超过一千年,其中一些树木的直径达到5米。
The most typical natural landscape of Yakushima Island is its cedar named Yakusugi, the age of which can surpass one thousand years; some of the cedars' diameter can be 5 meters.
高达两米的海浪袭击了夏威夷群岛,淹没了瓦胡岛的威基基度假村的海滩。
Waves of up to two meters hit the Hawaiian chain of islands, swamping the beach at the Waikiki resort on the island of Oahu.
博拉博拉岛塔普潜水点,摄影师在20米深的水下近距离接触一条柠檬鲨。
This was a close encounter with a lemon shark taken in Bora Bora at 20 meters down at the dive site Tapu.
回答:如果埃庇米尼得斯知道至少一个克里岛人(除了他以外)不说谎,那么他的诗就是一个谎言(因为他坚称所有克里岛人说谎),即使这首诗的作者是一个说谎者的事实也是真的。
ANSWER: If Epimenides knew of at least one Cretan (other than himself) who is not a liar, his statement is a lie (because he asserts all) even though it correctly describes the speaker as a liar.
这就意味着所有的克里岛人都是诚实的人,那么埃庇米尼得斯所言就是实话。
This means all Cretans are truthful, then Epimenides' statement is the truth.
这块直径约为15厘米的菲斯通盘出土于克里特岛,目前陈列在伊拉克利翁展览馆最显耀的展位上。
The disc, about 15 centimetres in diameter, occupies pride of place at the Heraklion Museumin Crete.
田锅获得吉尼斯世界纪录的认证后,日本便同时拥有了全世界寿命最长的男性和女性,目前全世界寿命最长的女性是114岁的皆川米子,她也住在九州岛。
With the recognition, Japan boasts having both the world's oldest man and the oldest woman — Yone Minagawa, 114, who also lives in Kyushu.
如果埃庇米尼得斯是一个克里岛人,并且是一个说谎者的话,那么他的诗中所说的“克里岛的人,人人都说谎”就是一个谎话。
If Epimenides is a Cretan and a liar, then his statement, "the Cretans, always liars" is a lie.
航空调度员罢工已经导致了马德里、马略卡岛、米诺卡岛、伊比沙岛加纳利群岛、加利西亚地区和所有西班牙航空机场的关闭。
Closure of the airports of Madrid, Mallorca, Minorca and Ibiza, the Canary Islands and in the region of Galicia, as well as causing the closure all Spanish airspace.
航空调度员罢工已经导致了马德里、马略卡岛、米诺卡岛、伊比沙岛加纳利群岛、加利西亚地区和所有西班牙航空机场的关闭。
Closure of the airports of Madrid, Mallorca, Minorca and Ibiza, the Canary Islands and in the region of Galicia, as well as causing the closure all Spanish airspace.
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