island, peninsula

名詞 peninsula:

1. a large mass of land projecting into a body of water

1. A promontory of southeast Newfoundland, Canada, on the coast of the Avalon Peninsula.
   萊思角加拿大紐芬蘭省東南部一海角，位于亞法隆半島沿岸
2. An arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and northwest Saudi Arabia. It has long been of strategic importance in the Middle East.
   阿克巴灣紅海的一個海灣，在西奈半島及沙特阿拉伯西北部之間。它長期以來在中東具有重要的戰(zhàn)略性
3. An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula. It corresponded roughly to modern-day Portugal.
   盧西塔尼亞古代一個地區(qū)，是古羅馬帝國在伊伯利亞半島的一個省份，大致相當于今天的葡萄牙
4. Italy is a peninsula.
   意大利是一個半島。

pen.in.su.la

n.（名詞）
A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus.
半島：一塊突入水域且以地峽和大陸相連的陸地

來源：
Latin paenonsula
拉丁語 paenonsula
paene [almost]
paene [差不多]
onsula [island]
onsula [島嶼]

【引伸】
penin.sular
adj.（形容詞）