The British islands teem with potatoes and codfish, and the low prices made them become a stock meal among working classes.

地处岛国的英伦盛产马铃薯和鳕鱼，由于两者便宜的价格，成为了工头供给工人们的工作便餐。

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Onge and Jarawa pygmies, who lived on separate islands, retreated into forests to avoid the British.

翁奇和加洛瓦的矮人族为了躲避英国殖民者，分别逃到了两个孤岛上的森林中。

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A British parliamentary committee visited the islands in 2008 and found a “palpable climate of fear”.

一个字2008年参观该岛的英国议会委员会发现一种“显而易见的恐惧气氛”。

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The animals on the islands influenced British nature scientist Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution by natural selection.

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The British nature scientist Charles Darwin is mainly responsible for the fame of the Galapagos Islands.

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A report in the Journal of Biogeography describes how a team from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg searched the South Orkney Islands.

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