The tsunami that struck the Solomon Islands earlier this week highlighted the limitations of the regional tsunami warning system, says UNESCO.

Australia has a relatively small military, which has been stretched in recent times by deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor and the Solomon Islands.

澳大利亚军力规模比较小，而由于最近派兵前往伊拉克、阿富汗、东帝汶和索罗门群岛，军力更显得紧张。

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A powerful 8-magnitude earthquake has struck off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, triggering a potentially 'destructive' tsunami warning in the epicentre.

太平洋所罗门群岛遭8级大地震袭击，震中发布潜在“破坏性”海啸预警通知。

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The Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga are among countries with high rates of forest degradation due to heavy exploitation of timber resources.

由于过度开采木材资源，所罗门群岛、萨摩亚和汤加的森林退化率很高。

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An Australian officer of a regional intervention force in the Solomon Islands was killed in Honiara, capital of the South Pacific island country, on Wednesday.

一名在南太平洋所罗门群岛参加多国援助行动的澳大利亚维和人员22日晨在所首都霍尼亚拉执行例行巡逻任务时被枪杀。

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WHO has initiated a programme for scaling up care for these disorders in six countries: Ethiopia, Jordan, Nigeria, Panama, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands.

世卫组织在埃塞俄比亚、约旦、尼日利亚、巴拿马、塞拉利昂和所罗门群岛发起了扩大对这些疾患的医护规划。

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A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Monday, sending a tsunami wave crashing into the country's west coast and prompting region-wide disaster warnings.

周一，所罗门群岛了里氏7.6级地震，引发海啸席卷该国西部的岛屿，该国已发布区域灾害警告。

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UN committee rejected a proposal-raised by the Solomon Islands and a very few other countries-to put the representation and participation of Taiwan in the United Nations on the agenda of the62nd UN General Assembly session.

在第62届联大会议上，联合国委员会否决了由所罗门群岛等一些小国提出的台湾代表和加入联合国议程的决议。

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IDA is a major form of support for government budgets, medicine, food security, and other needs, in low-income countries like Nepal, the Solomon Islands, and Rwanda.

国际开发协会为最贫困国家基金，它从多个捐赠方筹集援助资金，同时也是向诸如尼泊尔、所罗门群岛和卢旺达等低收入国家政府的预算、医药、食品安全和其它需求提供援助的主要机构。

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Nosy Be, which means "big island" in Malagasy, is Madagascar's largest island.

诺西贝，这个词在马达加斯加表示“大岛”的意思，是马达加斯加最大的岛屿。

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It will restrict movements from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for all regions except the Canary Islands, while social meetings will be limited to six in the entire country.

除加利群岛外，西班牙全国所有地区从晚上11点到早上6点实施宵禁，社交聚会的人数要限制在六人以内。

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Vita Pedrazzi, a former fashion manager at Harrods in London who now lives in the Canary Islands, said she used to be the sort of beauty obsessive who would slap on makeup to take out the trash, in part because of her sheepishness over her acne.

维塔·派德拉奇（Vita Pedrazzi）曾是伦敦哈罗德百货分管时装的经理，如今住在开曼群岛，她说，她曾经是美容狂人，就算出去倒垃圾也要化妆，部分是由于对自己的粉刺感到害羞。

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The Conquest of the Canary Islands and the Shaping of Western Colonial Theory

加那利的征服与西方殖民理论的初步建立

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Either of two plants, Chrysanthemum frutescens of the Canary Islands, or C.leucanthemum of Eurasia, having white or pale yellow flowers that resemble those of the common American daisy.

牛眼菊一种菊科类植物，尤指广泛移植的欧洲大陆植物（白花茼蒿茼蒿属），开有黄芯的白色放射状花头。

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A sweet white wine from the Canary Islands.

Canary岛的一种带有甜味的白葡萄酒。

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As this map shows, Columbus's voyages took him from Lisbon, Portugal, to Palos, Spain, and the Canary Islands before crossing the Atlantic.

如这张地图所示，哥伦布在航行中先经过葡萄牙里斯本，到达西班牙帕罗斯和加纳利群岛，然后穿越大西洋。

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Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, has some of the clearest, darkest skies in the world because of its high altitude, its closeness to the equator, and its safe distance from tropical storms.

卡纳里岛上的特纳里夫岛，高海拔使它拥有世界上最干净、最漆黑的夜空之一。它靠近赤道，却与热带风暴保持着安全距离。

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Chinese investors have also purchased homes and businesses everywhere from Barcelona to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

此外，从巴塞罗那到西属加纳利群岛的拉斯帕尔马斯，中国投资客正在西班牙各地购买房产和企业。

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I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands, but I was afraid to go too far from the shore. It was only a small boat.

我想驶向加纳利岛，但是不敢远离海岸，这只是一只小船。

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Every week, we hear about people from sub-Saharan Africa, for example, getting in boats and going toward the Canary Islands.

例如，我们每个星期都能听说非洲撒哈拉以南的人乘船前往加纳利群岛。

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I wanted to sail to the Canary Islands, but I was afraid to go too far from the shore.

我想驶向加纳利岛，但是不敢远离海岸。

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