1. It is quite reasonable to regard the sea floor as the basic form of the crust of the earth, with, superimposed upon, it the continents, together with the islands and other features of the oceans.
    因此完全有理由把海床看作地壳的基本模壳，上面附加着大陆以及岛屿和海洋的其他形态。

2. The kernel of the argument is who discovered the islands first.
    争执的要点是谁最先发现了那群岛。

3. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
    他们驾着一条严重损坏的小船从维尔京群岛阿密修理。

4. A girdle of islands enclosed the lagoon.
    一环小岛围绕着礁湖。

5. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.
    人类学家过去不清楚如今生活在太平洋诸岛上的波利尼西亚人的祖先来自何方，

6. Anybody can sail across the ocean, and anybody can coast along the islands on the other side, just as you have done.
    谁都能横渡大西洋，谁都能沿着大洋彼岸的岛屿航行，就像你做的那样。

7. Islands and continents make up the terrestrial parts of the earth.
    岛屿和洲构成地球上的陆地部分。

8. From the Skeppsbron and surrounding islands the people watched this thing of beauty begin to spread her sails and catch the wind.
    人们从斯开波斯布朗和周围的岛屿前来观着这艘美丽的战船扬帆起航，乘风前进。