At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko, that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

有争议的是TMT的计划建造地点——莫纳克山，它是被一些夏威夷人信奉为“piko”（夏威夷本地语言中代表着“大海的浪花”，“冲浪运动”，并引申有“阳光”，“生命”，“健康”等含义）的休眠火山，他们认为此山连接着夏威夷群岛和天堂。

The Philippines is an archipelago, a group of islands.

菲律宾是一个群岛，由一群岛屿组成。

The beak shapes of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin's conception of natural selection.

加拉帕戈群岛不同雀类的鸟喙形状在达尔文的自然选择学说中扮演了重要角色。

Britain is a cluster of islands populated by immigration.

英国本身就是一个由移民居住的群岛组成的国家。

Over the generations, many myths have abounded about the Canary Islands.

几代以来，加那利群岛盛传许多 神话故。

In many ways, the archipelago defies definition.

从很多方面来看，这个群岛是无法定义的。

The U.N recognized the Archipelago as world's heritage site last year.

去年，联合国认可圣洛伦索群岛为世界遗产。

But they have been looking at the eastern side of the archipelago.

但他们一直在观察群岛的东侧。

The island is one of Spain's Canary Islands.

该岛是西班牙的加那利群岛之一。

It wasn't the islands archipelago that it was speculated before.

它不是之前推测的群岛。

The last monarch of the islands was overthrown in 1893.

该群岛的最后一位君主于 1893 年被推翻。

In May, China placed the drilling platform in disputed waters near the Paracel islands.

中方今年5月在西沙群岛附近争议海域部署钻井平台。

From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them. Bitter rage was his, but never blind rage.

从斯匹次卑尔根群岛出发, 跨过北冰洋, 横穿加拿大和北方荒原, 他身经百战, 把形形色色的狗全都整得服服帖帖。他怒火中烧, 但一定不蛮干。

He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.

他在波斯患过癞病，在马来群岛患过坏血病，在历山大患过麻疯病，在日本患过脚气病，在马达加斯加患过淋巴腺鼠疫，在西西里碰到过地震，在麦哲伦海峡遇到过牺牲惨重的轮船失。

The Virgin Islands, located in the Caribbean, have a balmy climate.

位于加勒比海的维尔京群岛气候温和。

You wouldn't celebrate that Norway has decided to stop drilling for oil outside the scenic resort of Lofoten islands but will continue to drill for oil everywhere else for decades.

你就不会为挪威决定停止在风景秀丽的洛夫滕群岛外开采石油，取而代之继续在其他任何地方开采石油几十年而庆祝。

The area around Mahmudia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the third-most biodiverse in the world, after Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands.

Mahmudia围地区是联合国教科文组织世界遗产，是世界第三大生物多样性区，仅次于澳大利的大堡礁和加拉帕戈斯群岛。

As I'm unmarried with no children and fairly wealthy, I would like her to come to Madeira to live with me and to inherit all my properties when I die. John Eyre.

由于我未婚，没有孩子，还算富裕，我想叫她来马德拉群岛和我一起住。我死后会把财产继承给她。约翰·爱。

Pahoehoe and aa are Hawaiian terms. The volcanic islands see a lot of lava.

绳状熔岩和丙烯酸是夏威夷语里的词语。这个火山群岛里有大量的火山熔岩。

Coastguard heroes arriving in the Abaco Islands.

勇敢的海岸巡防英雄抵达阿巴科群岛。