Antilles
Antilles — 地名
1. the long chain of islands that curves through the Caribbean Sea between Florida
安地列斯群島
加勒比海上不含巴哈馬的島弧
the long chain of islands that curves through the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Venezuela, made up of the Greater Antilles (such as Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico) and the Lesser Antilles (smaller islands like Martinique and Barbados); the Bahamas are not counted as part of this group.
The cruise ship sailed slowly through the Antilles, stopping at six islands in two weeks.
那艘郵輪緩緩穿越安地列斯群島，兩週內停靠了六座島嶼。
always preceded by 'the': 'through the Antilles'
Yusuf wrote a school report on the volcanoes of the Antilles after his family visited Martinique.
Yusuf 一家造訪馬丁尼克之後，他寫了一份關於安地列斯群島火山的學校報告。
common collocation: 'the volcanoes / islands of the Antilles'
Hurricane season can bring heavy rain to the Antilles between June and November each year.
每年六月到十一月的颶風季，可能會為安地列斯群島帶來大量雨水。
Spanish, French, English, and Dutch are all spoken across different islands of the Antilles.
在安地列斯群島不同的島上，分別有人說西班牙語、法語、英語和荷蘭語。
Saoirse grew up in Puerto Rico, one of the four large islands that form the Greater Antilles.
Saoirse 在波多黎各長大，那是組成大安地列斯群島的四個大島之一。
- the West Indies
broader term — includes the Bahamas, which the Antilles do not
- the Caribbean
even broader — refers to the whole sea region, including coastal countries
文法句型
the Antilles
用法筆記
Always used with the definite article ('the Antilles') and treated as a plural noun: 'the Antilles are…', not 'Antilles is…'. Distinguish from 'the West Indies', which is a wider term that also includes the Bahamas.