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

South of the Aeolian section of that was the region of Asia Minor inhabited chiefly by Ionians, the people on the mainland who are the main Ionians are the Athenians.

位于小亚细亚地区的伊奥利亚南部,主要居住爱奥尼亚人,而在内陆居住的爱奥尼亚人,主要都是雅典人

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The northern most settlements on that coast spoke Greek with an Aeolian dialect; the Aeolian dialect is the one that you see on the mainland in places like Boeotia for instance Thebes and so on.

在北部,大多沿海移民,都说伊奥利亚方言,伊奥利亚方言,在内陆,例如皮奥夏和底比斯,等地较为普及

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NOAA's National Weather Service center in Palmer,Alaska supervises a warning station for the United States mainland and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

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

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Scientists studied clouded leopards on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, and in mainland Southeast Asia.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

But the animals escaped to the mainland when waters on the Chesapeake Bay froze in December.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They remain the only states not physically connected to the mainland United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

During the summer, the most dangerous period for U-V rays in the United States mainland is between the hours of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Residents are being forced out of the historic center as they search for cheaper housing and easier living conditions on the mainland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Following the study, Puerto Ricans from across the island and many living on the mainland had their DNA tested by submitting samples of their saliva.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

(Speech) Mario Secchi says he was born in Venice, his dad and grand dad were Venetians, but he was forced to emigrate to the mainland because the rents were too high in the historic center.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27