ALDNa word for an island, used in poetry or in names of islands 岛〔用于诗歌或岛名〕
the British Isles
不列颠群岛
Examples from the Corpus
isle• But now in Salamis, Ajax' isle, we lie.• The ship finally dropped anchor at a beautiful isle of the Marquesas.• And I don't like life on your crocodile isle.• Its dreamlike construction of our sceptred isle as an ethnically purified one provides a special comfort against the ravages of decline.• Experts from their Ross-on-Wye headquarters carried out an extensive survey of the coastal waters around the Shetland isles.• She watched the dark towering of the isle, bulking higher and higher as they approached.• the Isle of Cozumel