This is a small island, but pretty high; I named it Providence. About five leagues to the southward of this there is another island, which is called William Scouten's Island, and laid down in our drafts: it is a high island, and about twenty leagues big.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
They argue, I suppose, from the species being allied in different regions of the same continent, though specifically distinct. But I think one might on the creative doctrine argue with equal force in a directly reverse manner, and say that, as species are so often markedly distinct, yet allied, on islands, all our continents existed as islands first, and their inhabitants were first created on these islands, and since became mingled together, so as not to be so distinct as they now generally are on islands.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
The passage which seems to be referred to does mention the absence of BOREAL plants.) In the third column you speak as if savages (376/3. "Such plants on oceanic islands are, like the savages which in some islands have been so long the sole witnesses of their existence, the last representatives of their several races.") had generally viewed the endemic plants of the Atlantic islands. Now, as you well know, the Canaries alone of all the archipelagoes were inhabited. In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands?英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Fifth. Long Island, the third, is accurately described. The trend of the shores, "north-northwest and south-southeast;" the "marvelous port" and the "coast which runs east [and] west," can nowhere be found except at the southeast part of Long Island. Sixth. The journal is obscure in regard to the fourth island. The best way to find it is to "plot" the courses FORWARD from the third island and the courses and distances BACKWARD from the fifth. These lead to Fortune for the fourth. Seventh.英文原著 · 《The Life of Christopher Columbus》
It was very evident that Lincoln Island was at such a distance from every country or island that it would be too hazardous to attempt to reach one in a frail boat. In fact, this calculation placed it at least twelve hundred miles from Tahiti and the islands of the archipelago of the Pomoutous, more than eighteen hundred miles from New Zealand, and more than four thousand five hundred miles from the American coast! And when Cyrus Harding consulted his memory, he could not remember in any way that such an island occupied, in that part of the Pacific, the situation assigned to Lincoln Island.英文原著 · 《The Mysterious Island》
I was not to come to the island. No one was to come to the island but he. So he meant. But I--I was sharper than he, I who am so stupid! I took him to fish by night. I brought him to the island. I made him introduce me to you, to the Signorina. That night I made him.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Hey, Ross, is, uh, Staten Island really an island?美剧 · 《Friends》
Uh-huh. That's why they call it Staten "Island." Oh, I thought it was like Long Island.美剧 · 《Friends》
Our gift to the newlyweds was a duet performance - of "Islands in the Stream." - "Islands in the Stream." A gift that would never be, because...美剧 · 《Modern Family》
She's from the Fiji Islands and gives one hell of a sponge bath.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》