N-SING You can refer to the largest part of a country or continent as the mainland when contrasting it with the islands around it. 大陆
She was going to Nanaimo to catch the ferry to the mainland.
她打算到纳奈莫乘渡船去大陆。
Similar trends are observable in mainland Europe.
类似的趋势在欧洲大陆也能见到。
The island is joined to the mainland by a bridge.
这个岛有一座桥与大陆相连。
The Hebrides are to the west of the Scottish mainland.
赫布里底群岛位于苏格兰本土的西面。
Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.
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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
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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