Mainland

(noun.) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula.

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• These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And at first the Greek cities of the mainland of Asia paid the tribute and shared in this Persian Peace. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• On its way west in the Pacific the Beagle spent a month at the Galapagos Archipelago, which lies under the equator five or six hundred miles from the mainland. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Why should the plants and animals of the islands resemble those of the mainland, or the inhabitants of one island differ from those of a neighboring i sland? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He set himself to make mischief, and was able to stir up a revolt against the Persians among the Ionian Greeks on the mainland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Dr. Gunther has lately shown that the Galaxias attenuatus inhabits Tasmania, New Zealand, the Falkland Islands and the mainland of South America. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The next finest suspension bridge was constructed by Thomas Telford and finished in 1826, across the Menai Strait to connect the island of Anglesea with the mainland of Wales. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Other authors have thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and united almost every island with some mainland. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The most perfect specimen is that upon the island of Mousa, near to the mainland of Zetland, which is probably in the same state as when inhabited. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Then, when we are tired of Melnos, we can cross over to the mainland, and have a cruise up the Black Sea before returning to England. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• These they could supply easily from the African mainland, and, as long as their sea ascendancy held, they could exhaust any Roman effort against them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The seamen would find it easy to make nests upon islands and in strong positions on the mainland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The mainlands or the islands? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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