The Philippines is an archipelago, a group of islands.

律是一个, 由一屿组成。

No other course was possible than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in the Philippine Islands.

除了摧毁西班牙在整个西印度和律的主权之外，别无他法。

The Philippines is a group of islands, and again, the idea is that it's plural - the Philippine Islands.

律是一组屿， 再一次，这个想法是它的复数形式——律。

The death toll in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands stands at more than 900, but authorities fear it could climb to 10,000 or more.

台风肆虐律后，当地死人数已达900余人，政府担忧死人数将激增到10000人甚至更多。

Experts say typhoon Haiyan might be one of the strongest ever. Left the path of destruction as it moved across the Philippine Islands.

专家表示台风海燕可能是有史以来最强的台风之一。在肆虐律后它造成了无法挽救的损害。

PAOLO RENIVA, VOLCANOLOGIST, TAAL OBSERVATORY: Philippines originally is an archipelagic country.

PAOLO RENIVA，火山学家，TAAL 天文台：律最初是一个国家。

Archaeologists Armand Mijares found the bones in a cave in small Philippine Islands and says they are between fifty and sixty seven thousand years old.

考古学家阿尔芒·米亚雷斯在律的一个洞穴里发现了这些骨头，并称这些骨头有五万到六万七千年的历史。

The devastation wrought by typhoon Haiyan in the islands of the central Philippines has been compared to that caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

“海燕”肆虐律中部，它所造成的破坏堪比2004年的印度洋海啸。

The “Manila” part of the name makes sense, because Manila hemp is produced chiefly in the Philippine Islands and, of course, the capital city of the Philippines is Manila.

这名字中的“马尼拉”倒是说得过去，因为马尼拉麻主要产于律，当然，律的首都是马尼拉。

Tensions have been running high in the South China Sea amid disputes among China, Vietnam and the Philippines over the Xisha and Nansha Island chains.

由于中国、越南以及律在西沙及南沙屿链的争端，南海的紧张局势也不断高涨。

May day, known also as International Labor Day, is a public holiday in many European countries. the Canal Zone, Philippine Islands and the Latin American countries.

五一节，也称为国际劳动节，是许多欧洲国家的公共假期。运河区、律和拉丁美洲国家。

The United States, which began as colonies themselves, soon sprawled out through North America and took control of Haiti, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, and parts of Panama and Cuba.

美国本身作为殖民地开始，很快就扩展到北美并控制了海地、波多黎各、关、律、夏威夷以及巴拿马和古巴的部分地区。