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Isle means island, but you almost never use it in everyday talk for a piece of land in the sea. You meet it in poems, older writing, and names: the British Isles, the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Man. It sounds like “I’ll”; the s is silent. Though actually, isle and island look like sister words, and they are not. Isle comes from French, from Latin insula. Island is a different old English word; people later stuck an s into island because of isle. So the spelling is tidier than the history. In names, keep isle if that is the official form; in a normal sentence, island is the word you want.
島(詩文或地名用語,日常多說 island)
組成From Middle English ile / yle, from Old French isle, from Latin insula. Writers added the s in spelling, as they did with island. Not related to island. Same Latin parent as the learned word insula, reached by a French path.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Islename
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A minor city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
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A commune near Limoges, Haute-Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
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A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.
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A river in southwestern France, which flows into the Dordogne.
islenoun詞源 1/aɪ̯l/
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An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。