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a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water 岛 
a small/tiny island 一个小岛屿 a remote island off the coast of Scotland 一个远离苏格兰海岸的岛 the islands in the Baltic Sea 波罗的海的岛屿 the Virgin Islands 维尔京群岛 - island of…
the resort island of Bali 度假胜地巴厘岛 - on an island
We spent a week on the Greek island of Kos. 我们在希腊的科斯岛上待了一个星期。 an island nation/state 岛国/国家 - (figurative) island of something
No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering. 这个星球上没有一个地方能在苦难的海洋中保持富裕。
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographya1He owns a house on the island. 他在岛上拥有一所房子。 The best beaches are on the southern tip of the island. 最好的沙滩位于该岛南端。 They were forced to leave their island home and start a new life on the mainland. 他们被强迫离开岛上的家园，到大陆上开始新的生活。 Fiji is a small South Pacific island nation. 斐济是南太平洋上的一个小岛国。 a ferry service to the outlying islands 驶往偏远岛屿的渡船 a group of tropical islands 热带群岛 the island chain of the Bahamas 巴哈马群岛 the island paradise of Phuket 天堂岛屿普吉岛 Cuba is an island nation located on the northern rim of the Caribbean Sea. 古巴是一个岛国，位于加勒比海的北缘。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- outlying
- remote
- coral
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- chain
- group
- chain
- group
- home
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- on an/the island
- the… coast, side, tip, etc. of an island
- (also refuge (British English), traffic island British and North American English)
an area in the middle of a road where you can stand and wait for cars to go past until it is safe for you to cross 安全岛（供行人避让车辆）
Word OriginOld English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th cent. was due to association with the unrelated word isle.