Our correspondent Alastair Leithead is off the Philippine island of Cebu.

我们的记者Alastair Leithead从菲律宾宿务岛发来报道。

At least 12 people are dead after a passenger ship caught fire near the Philippine island of Basilan.

一艘客轮在菲律宾巴西兰岛附近起火，造成至少 12 人死亡。

At least ten people are dead and three others are missing after Typhoon Goni swept across the Philippine island of Luzon.

台风“戈尼”袭击菲律宾吕宋岛，造成至少10人死亡，3人失踪。

The death toll in the typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands stands at more than 900, but authorities fear it could climb to 10,000 or more.

台风肆虐菲律宾群岛后，当地死亡人数已达900余人，政府担忧死亡人数将激增到10000人甚至更多。

This Philippine island is a natural paradise.

这个菲律宾岛屿是一个天然的天堂。

Experts say typhoon Haiyan might be one of the strongest ever. Left the path of destruction as it moved across the Philippine Islands.

专家表示台风海燕可能是有史以来最强的台风之一。在肆虐菲律宾群岛后它造成了无法挽救的损害。

Archaeologists Armand Mijares found the bones in a cave in small Philippine Islands and says they are between fifty and sixty seven thousand years old.

考古学家阿尔芒·米亚雷斯在菲律宾群岛的一个洞穴里发现了这些骨头，并称这些骨头有五万到六万七千年的历史。

The Philippines is a group of islands, and again, the idea is that it's plural - the Philippine Islands.

菲律宾是一组岛屿， 再一次，这个想法是它的复数形式——菲律宾群岛。

No other course was possible than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in the Philippine Islands.

除了摧毁西班牙在整个西印度群岛和菲律宾群岛的主权之外，别无他法。

The “Manila” part of the name makes sense, because Manila hemp is produced chiefly in the Philippine Islands and, of course, the capital city of the Philippines is Manila.

这名字中的“马尼拉”倒是说得过去，因为马尼拉麻主要产于菲律宾群岛，当然，菲律宾的首都是马尼拉。