n. 岛；岛屿；安全岛；岛状物
adj. 岛的
vt. 孤立；使成岛状
n. (Island)人名；(英)艾兰
英 ['aɪlənd] 美 ['aɪlənd]
权威例句
- island 对照 isle.
- 岛是(is)水中的陆地(land)
### 中文词源 - They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.
他们打算绕着小岛逆潮航行。
来自柯林斯例句 - He made it his object in life to find the island.
他把找到那座岛屿当成自己的人生目标。
来自柯林斯例句 - Further to the south are some of the island'sloveliest unspoilt coves.
再往南走有一些这个岛上尚未被破坏的迷人小海湾。
来自柯林斯例句 - The island is only 200m wide at its narrowest point.
该岛最狭窄处仅200米宽.
来自柯林斯例句 - The Regent hotel has a superlative view of Hong Kong island.
在丽晶酒店看香港岛的美景，视野绝佳。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
island 岛
来自古英语igland,岛，来自ieg,水，水中的陆地，来自PIE*akwa,水，词源同aquatic,aquarium，land,陆地。拼写受isle影响俗化。
英文词源
island
**island: **[OE] Despite their similarity, _island _has no etymological connection with _isle _(their resemblance is due to a 16th-century change in the spelling of _island _under the influence of its semantic neighbour isle). _Island _comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *aujō, which denoted ‘land associated with water’, and was distantly related to Latin _aqua _‘water’.
This passed into Old English as _īeg _‘island’, which was subsequently compounded with _land _to form _īegland _‘island’. By the late Middle English period this had developed to iland, the form which was turned into island. (A diminutive form of Old English īeg, incidentally, has given us _eyot _‘small island in a river’ [OE].) _Isle _[13] itself comes via Old French _ile _from Latin _insula _(the _s _is a 15th-century reintroduction from Latin).
Other contributions made by _insula _to English include _insular _[17], _insulate _[16], _insulin, isolate _(via Italian) [18], and _peninsula _[16].
=> eyot
island (n.)
1590s, earlier yland (c. 1300), from Old English igland "island," from ieg "island" (from Proto-Germanic *aujo "thing on the water," from PIE *akwa- "water;" see aqua-) + land (n.). Spelling modified 15c. by association with similar but unrelated isle. An Old English cognate was ealand "river-land, watered place, meadow by a river." In place names, Old English ieg is often used of "slightly raised dry ground offering settlement sites in areas surrounded by marsh or subject to flooding" [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]. Related: Islander.
