The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center says traditional crops like these can survive the fierce storms that often strike the islands.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World it was set in the Aran Islands, in Western Ireland.

辛格的剧，《西方世界的花花公子》,它是在西爱尔兰的伊朗岛。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Others had to keep going and settled on the islands of the Aegean Sea.

其他的则继续逃亡并在爱琴海的岛屿定居

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

At the same time, they are seeking to re-establish natural water flow to the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife refuge.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You can usually find good clay in low areas of islands or land, especially if volcanoes helped form the land.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In two thousand nine, a team of scientists spent two months researching blue holes on Bahamian islands including Andros and Abaco.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

Often,he would pass islands with strong enemy forces, cut off their supplies and leave them with no chance to fight.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

In a separate project, scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral in deep waters near the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

These were the Hawaiian islands. Hawaii was an important port for American trade ships sailing between the United States and China.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Yellow fever is found mainly in Africa, the northern part of South America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

It is really 10 telescopes that are as distant from one another as Hawaii and the United States Virgin Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The long-beaked echidna is an endangered animal that only lives north of Australia, on New Guinea and nearby islands.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

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 Ecuadorian government has tried to enforce severe limits on the number of Ecuadorians who move to the islands.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

A new report in the journal Global Change Biology says the ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands has changed forever.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Top winner Eric Yang will receive twenty-five thousand dollars for college and a trip to the Galapagos Islands this summer.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

More than one third of all threatened or endangered bird species in America live on the Hawaiian Islands.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

They were wrong. Instead,they sailed onto rocks near a small group of islands southwest of England's Atlantic coast.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Other goals are creating better transportation between the islands and controlling development to preserve the state's natural beauty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

There are treasures of ancient and current art from Asia, Africa,the Pacific islands and Central and South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The Hawaiian Islands were formed starting millions of years ago by hot liquid rock flowing from undersea volcanoes.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But scientists wonder how animals arrived on Galapagos if the islands were always so far from the mainland.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Hundreds of the islands are only pieces of sand that extend a few feet out of the water.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22