喜樂美語
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    /ˈmeɪnlænd/ · /ˈmeɪnlənd/

    The largest, main part of a country or area of land, when it is talked about separately from the islands around it.

    本島／大陸（陸地主體）

    複數 mainlands

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Stand on a small island and look across the water at the big body of land — that large main piece is the mainland, named separately from the islands scattered around it.

可以想成站在一座小島上，隔著海望向那一大塊主要的陸地：那塊「主體」就是 mainland。這個字把「最大、最核心的那…更多收起可以想成站在一座小島上，隔著海望向那一大塊主要的陸地：那塊「主體」就是 mainland。這個字把「最大、最核心的那片陸地」和它周圍零星的島嶼分開來講——它由 main（主要的）加上 land（陸地）組成，字面就是「主要的那塊地」。

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。

Mainlandname

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    The largest island in the Orkney Islands council area, to the north of Scotland.

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    The largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, to the north of both Orkney and Scotland.

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    historicalA historical region of British Columbia, British North America, British Empire.

mainlandnoun/ˈmeɪnlənd/

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    The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

    • […]I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.
    • You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.
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    The principal island of a group.

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    Great Britain.

    • All of the people I interviewed were from Protestant backgrounds, with proud British traditions. Yet when they set foot on the mainland, they were met at times with jeering, derision and othering from the very people with whom they were raised to believe they had the most in common.

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。