is‧land S3 W2 / aɪlənd / 名词 [可数名词]

a piece of land completely surrounded by water → insular :

The Cayman Islands

the Greek island of Crete

on an island

No cars are allowed on the island. → desert island

COLLOCATIONS

形容词

large/big Novaya Zemlja is a large island in the Russian Arctic.

small/little It’s a small island, barely twenty miles long.

uninhabited (= one where nobody lives ) There are over a thousand uninhabited islands in the seas around Greece.

remote (= far away ) I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. | The islands were so remote that they could only be reached at certain times of the year.

volcanic More than 3,500 years ago, the volcanic island of Thera erupted. | The island is volcanic and has very little vegetation.

a desert island (= a tropical island that is far away and where nobody lives ) He was shipwrecked on a desert island.

a tropical island What could be more romantic than a wedding on a tropical island?

a Greek/Spanish/Caribbean etc island Chris told me he was sailing to the Greek islands.

an offshore island The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.

island + NOUN

island life He had become used to the slow pace of island life.

an island paradise She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.

sb’s island home He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.

短语

a chain/group of islands Our destination was a chain of islands, sixty miles east of Taiwan.

the tip of an island (= the thin pointed end of an island ) We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.

THESAURUS

island a piece of land completely surrounded by water : We visited the Greek island of Kos. | In the centre of a lake is a small island.

isle an island – used in poetry or in names of islands : The horse carried him to the windswept isle of Bujan. | It is the most southerly point in the British Isles. | the Windward Isles | the Isle of Wight

peninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large area of land : There is a coastal path around the peninsula. | the Korean peninsula

archipelago a group of small islands that are in a line : He lives on an island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.