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islander

/ahy-luhn-der/US // ˈaɪ lən dər //UK // (ˈaɪləndə) //

岛民,岛民们,岛主,岛国人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a native or inhabitant of an island.

Examples

  • Greenland’s extensive high-speed fiber-optic network has brought with it better access to streaming services, allowing younger islanders to binge-watch American TV series and movies, Broberg says.

  • To the islanders, all of the men are outsiders, strangers from other lands.

  • The military planes running on fossil fuels only pollute the air local islanders breathe.

  • In his memoir, Belfort describes Danny Porush (the real Azoff) as a Jewish Long Islander with WASP pretensions.

  • With her win, Hirono also became the first Asian/Pacific Islander American woman to be elected to the Senate.

  • The field of Asian-American/Pacific Islander candidates has exploded in this political cycle.

  • He was a bald islander who wore a hat and lots of gold jewelry.

  • A Sandwich Islander appreciates this when he salutes a British crew in terms compounded of oaths and ribaldry.

  • They may do very well for St. Paul; in the case of an Andaman islander they mean less than nothing.

  • She showed no colors, but the old islander, once a whaler, declared that she was a British man-o'-war.

  • And third, never to intrust the care of youth to a cannibal heathen South Sea Islander.

  • None, said the Islander, was more deservedly respected, and by his death the world has lost one who was an honest and upright man.