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小词详解 | peninsula
peninsula 英 [pəˈnɪnsjələ] 美 [pəˈnɪnsələ]
in 1943 a German U-boat surreptitiously landed on the coast of Labrador, Canada’s frigid north-eastern peninsula.
1943 年,一艘德国U 型潜艇在加拿大东北部寒冷的半岛拉布拉多某处偷偷登陆。
——《经济学人》Diplomatic, economic and security ties between Japan and South Korea have reached their lowest point in years, a rupture that can be traced to the long-raging dispute over what Japan still owes for abuses committed during its colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula, including its treatment of the comfort women.
日本和韩国之间的外交、经济和安全关系已达到多年来的最低点,这一破裂源起于一场激烈的争议,即日本如今应为殖民占领朝鲜半岛期间的恶行承担什么样的责任,其中也包括对待慰安妇的行为。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 半岛(陆地一部分伸入海洋或湖泊,另一部分同大陆或更大的岛屿相连的地貌状态)
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
乐观主义者生活在拥有无限可能的半岛上;悲观主义者被困在永远犹豫不决的孤岛上。
cape: a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast promontory: a long narrow area of high land that goes out into the sea headland: a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea