This is due to the fact that evidence of a British colony had been found on an island in the North Carolina Outer

Banks called Croatoan, as well as an area called Cape creek, which was a majorCroatoan town hub.这由于在北卡罗来纳州附近一个美洲土著居的岛上和一个叫角溪的地方发现了有关英国殖地生存的痕迹。

This would provide power for at least 250 islanders.

这将至少为岛上250名居提供电力。

Fraser Island residents are worried that the attacks could threaten the island's heritage status.

弗雷泽岛上的居担心袭击会威胁到这座小岛的文化遗产。

He presented a formal request signed by people who live on the island.

他提交了一份由岛上居签署的正式请愿书。

229, which is every single person who lives on the island.

雷索卢特小镇仅有229人，他们也岛上唯一的居。

The islanders had been petitioning for their return. BBC news.

岛上的居一直在请愿，要求归还这。BBC新闻。

Moreover, despite Madagascar's proximity to Africa (400km, or 250 miles, at the closest point) those settlers have long been suspected of having arrived from the Malay Archipelago-modern Indonesia-more than 6,000km away.

此外，尽管马达加斯加岛毗邻非洲陆（最近距离400公里，合250英里），长久以来外界猜测岛上的居马来群岛，即现在的印度尼西亚，这个6000多公里外的地方迁移来的。

That is not normally the case in the Aegean, where islanders worry that tourists will go elsewhere if the view is spoiled by a turbine 200 metres high.

但在爱琴海却不这样，岛上的居担心如果200米高的涡轮机破坏了这里的风景，游客就会去别的地方。

Up here, I've noted the main topic of the reading which is Easter Island, and then I've noted the author's main argument and which is that there's a few ideas about what happened to the island and its inhabitants.

上面这里，我注意到了阅读的主要主题复活节岛，然后我注意到了作者的主要论点，也就关于该岛发生的事情和岛上居的一想法。

Almost two weeks after cyclone Winston devastated parts of Fiji, aid agencies have called for international relief efforts to be stepped up to help islanders in urgent need of food, water and shelter.

两周前，飓风“温斯顿”侵袭斐济部分地区，现在救助机构呼吁国际救援力量加对急需食物、水和避难所的岛上居的帮助。

Indigenous cultures in the area had been using the guano on these islands as a source of fertilizer for hundreds of years, so von Humboldt definitely didn't discover guano.

这里的本土居利用岛上的海鸟粪作肥料的习俗已经持续几百年了，因此冯·洪堡并不鸟粪的发现者。

For decades Sri Lanka has failed to invest appropriately in its public transport, while the island's wealthier residents continued to complain about the indiscipline of bus and trishaw drivers.

几十年来，斯里兰卡都没适当投资自己的公共交通，岛上较富裕的居还继续抱怨不守交规的公交车和三轮车司机。

They seemed, to the European imagination, to be living proof of the idea of the noble savage -a simple people with an unspoiled way of life.

岛上的居对欧洲人来说 高贵野蛮人的现实代表 一群简单的 原生态的人。

Olivia Britton is one of the students. She said it seemed " obvious" to give the money back to the people living on the island.

奥利维亚·布里顿（Olivia Britton）学生之一。她表示，把这笔钱还给岛上的居似乎" 毫无悬念的" 。

Here's one theory of the story of the Rapa Nui, the inhabitants of Easter Island, that could perhaps give us pause for thought.

复活节岛的故事和岛上居的遭遇或许值得我们反思。

Yeah, by boat. This is a very small island. It's steep and hilly. There's fewer than two dozen residents who live there.

对，乘船。那一座非常小的岛。地势陡峭起伏。岛上居不足24人。

Yore says having a grass roof is a way for people on the islands to take responsibility for the environment.

约尔说建造草制屋顶可以增强岛上居的环保责任感。

As only a relatively few people live on these islands, how can we hear their special dialect or accent?

而因为居住在这岛上的居相当少，我们又如何听到他们特别的方言或腔调呢？

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea's fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island's inhabitants.

他们并不总把保护莫纳克亚山脆弱的生态环境或维护莫纳克亚山对岛上居而言的神圣地位放在优先位置。

The problems of the people on the island quickly became, in many cases, a matter of life and death.

很多时候，岛上居的问题都迅速变成了生死攸关的问题。