archipelago

IPA/ˌɑːkɪˈpeləɡəʊ/
KK[ˌɑrkəpˈɛləɡˌo]IPA/ˌɑːrkɪˈpeləɡəʊ/

archipelago — 名詞

  • archipelagosingular
  • archipelagoesplural

1. a wide area of sea that has many islands dotted across it, or the set of those i

1.名詞B2
釋義

群島

散布在廣大海域中的島嶼群

a wide area of sea that has many islands dotted across it, or the set of those islands considered as a whole

例句

The Indonesian archipelago has more than 17,000 islands spread across the ocean.

印尼群島有超過一萬七千座島嶼散布在海洋中。

proper noun: Indonesian archipelago — named example

Hyun spent the summer exploring the small islands of the archipelago by boat.

Hyun 夏天乘船探索了群島中的各個小島。

collocation: explore the / an archipelago

常見搭配
  • remote archipelago
  • tropical archipelago
  • explore an archipelago
  • islands of the archipelago
  • archipelago nation
同義詞
  • island chain

    more informal; emphasises islands arranged in a line

  • island group

    more general; less precise than archipelago

  • island nation

    refers to the country that occupies the archipelago, not the geographic feature itself

用法筆記

Often paired with a proper noun (e.g. Indonesian archipelago, Malay archipelago) to refer to a specific named group of islands.

常見錯誤

Japan is an archipelago island.
Japan is an archipelago.
An archipelago already means a group of islands, so adding 'island' is redundant.
The Caribbean archipelago is a single island.
The Caribbean archipelago is made up of many islands.
An archipelago describes many islands, not just one.

同根字

  • archipelagic
    形容詞C2

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • archipelago nation
  • archipelago state
  • archipelago tourism

常用片語

  • islands of the archipelago
  • part of an archipelago
  • the entire archipelago

介系詞搭配

  • in an archipelago
  • of the archipelago
  • across the archipelago
  • throughout the archipelago