For those of you who don't know the northeast coastal region, Cape Cod is a peninsula, a narrow strip of land that jets out into the Atlantic.

你们当中可能有不知道东北沿海地区的人吧——科德角是一个半岛，一块延伸到大西洋的狭长地带。

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Unknown whether it is an island or a peninsula.

尚不清楚它是一个岛屿还是半岛。

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Boats glide on twinkling bays. A peninsula is blanketed with cherry trees and vineyards.

游船在波光粼粼的港湾荡漾，整个半岛为郁郁葱葱的樱桃树和葡萄园所环绕。

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The situation raised fears that the peninsula could be headed toward a return of the warfare of the early nineteen fifties.

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It's a helpful little story to remember, because we tend to think of Greece because of its modern geography as that peninsula of which there is a sub peninsula at the bottom, which is Peloponnesus.

这是个很生动的比喻,因为我们都认为现代希腊的,地理环境,在其底部是,一个分离于大陆的半岛,即伯罗奔尼撒半岛

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So, anybody by the time history dawns, who lives in the peninsula that is Attica, is Athenian, even if he lives in a village or a good size town sixty miles away; he is still an Athenian.

因此在有文字记载的历史开始出现时,阿提卡半岛的居民就都是雅典人了,哪怕他住在六十英里外的一个小村庄,或者相对较大的城镇中,他仍是雅典人

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Charleston sits on a peninsula between two rivers and is extremely prone to flooding.

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In a peninsula, the borders were relatively well controlled and the rebels had few external sources of support.

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The City on the Bay sits on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.

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