| 单词 | peninsula |
| 释义 | peninsula (once / 519 pages) n Part of Italy is a peninsula, and it's a pretty famous one, because it looks like a boot. A peninsula juts into the water but has at least a narrow a connection to land. If the boot broke off from Italy just below the "knee," it would be an island. The word peninsula, which entered English in the 16th century, comes from the Latin words paene, "almost," and insula, "island." Some confuse an island with a peninsula because both are surrounded by so much water, but a peninsula is connected to a mainland at some point, while an island is completely encircled by water. In most cases, a peninsula is narrow and long, resembling an arm or leg. WORD FAMILYpeninsula: peninsular, peninsulas USAGE EXAMPLESThey built a lake near the river and installed the blind on a peninsula. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) The village of 900 is near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) The EU is still sanctioning Russia over its 2014 annexation of the Crimea peninsula. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) n a large mass of land projecting into a body of water Exp|Hyper Asia Minor a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey Balkan Peninsulaa large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range Indochinese peninsulaa peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam Yucatan Peninsulaa peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea Scandinavian Peninsulathe peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden Jutlandpeninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany Peloponnesian Peninsulathe southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC Italian Peninsulaa boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea Nova Scotiaa peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River Arabian Peninsulaa peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources Sinai Peninsulaa peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea Dae-Han-Min-Gookan Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook Malay Peninsulaa peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar Iberian Peninsulaa peninsula in southwestern Europe Katar Peninsulaa peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf Somali peninsulaa peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia Kola Peninsulaa peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea Crimeaa Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov Kamchatka Peninsulaa peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk Taimyr Peninsulaa peninsula in northern Siberia Seward Peninsulaa peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle Cape Anna Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean Cape Coda Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area Alaska Peninsulaa peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands) Antarctic Peninsulaa large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific Cape York Peninsulaa peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea Chukchi Peninsulapeninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska Eyre Peninsulaa peninsula of southern Australia Labrador-Ungava Peninsulaa peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador Liaodong Peninsulaa peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay Lower Californiaa mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico Lower Peninsulathe part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron Upper Peninsulathe peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma the solid part of the earth's surface |
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