菲律宾群岛

Undeterred, the Filipina -- still in her chaplet -- stepped alluringly into the water, as the Hawar Islands accustomed addition alien breed into its midst.

那位菲律宾妇女没有被吓着，仍然戴着珍珠项链，优雅地迈进了水里，就像哈瓦群岛又迎来了一个物种。

Circum-Pacific seismic belt volcanoes, including the eastern Pacific, North America and South America's western mountains, as well as South and North America between the Caribbean - Antilles region, the western edge of the Pacific, the Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, south through Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and so on until a series of islands and island.

环太平洋火山地震带，包括太平洋东面、北美洲和南美洲的西部山地，以及南、北美之间的加勒比—安的列斯地区，太平洋西部边缘的阿留申群岛、堪察加半岛、千岛群岛，向南经日本、菲律宾，直到新西兰等一系列群岛和岛屿。

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马里亚纳群岛纳米比亚瑙鲁尼泊尔荷兰荷属安的列斯群岛新卡里多尼亚新西兰尼加拉瓜尼日尔尼日利亚NIUE诺福克岛挪威阿曼巴基斯坦贝劳巴勒斯坦疆土巴拿马巴布亚新几内亚巴拉圭秘鲁菲律宾皮凯恩波兰葡萄牙波多里哥卡塔尔团聚罗马尼亚俄国卢旺达萨摩亚圣马力诺SAN大型书本和普林西比沙特阿拉伯塞内加尔塞尔维亚和 MONTENEGRO塞舌尔群岛塞阿里昂新加坡斯洛伐克斯洛文尼亚SOMOLIA所罗门群岛南非南佐治亚和南桑威奇岛南韩西班牙斯里南卡ST。

And when, after the Cold War, the sovereignty disputes over the islands in the South China Sea have become one of the dominating problems that threaten the peace and security of the Asia-Pacific area and the relations between the countries around the South China Sea have been in such tensions many times due to the issue that there is evidence that force may be resorted to, US has been dead set on one point though its strategy for the Asia-Pacific area is still shaping: it urges that the issue should be settled through negotiation rather than by force.

就南中国海岛礁的实际控制问题和争议的解决方式而言，美国在不同时期有不同的态度。20世纪50、60年代，美国坚决反对中国收复西沙和南沙群岛，尤其是对1956年所谓的"中共甘泉岛登陆"事件反应强烈，但容忍、默许台湾当局、南越、菲律宾这些反共盟友在这些岛礁的活动。70、80年代，美国对发生在南中国海的两次武装冲突持中立态度：默许中国武力收复西沙群岛和部分南沙岛礁；冷战后，即90年代，美国则坚决反对武力解决南沙群岛问题，极力倡导和平解决。

The southern Philippines, and in particular the Sulu Archipelago that includes the Samales Islands, is home to the Badjaos.

菲律宾南部，特别是苏禄群岛，其中包括萨马莱斯群岛，是家庭对

The Tao people came to Lanyu from the Batan Archipelego in the Northern Philippines 800 years ago. The indigenous people of the Batans are the Ivatan and both peoples still speak the same language.

达悟族人八百年前从菲律宾北部的巴丹群岛来到兰屿，巴丹群岛的原住民为伊巴丹族，两个部族至今仍说同一种语言。

The Ring of Fire goes all the way from the Philippines past Japan to China and Kamchatka in Russia, to the Aleutians in the United States down through Alaska and across Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest, joining up with the San Andreas down the West Coast to Mexico and into South America, and another part of the ring goes through Indonesia, Scholz said.

Scholz指出：环太平洋地震带以菲律宾为起点、经日本、中国、俄罗斯的堪察加半岛，美国的阿留申群岛，向下延伸至阿拉斯加，穿越太平洋西北部的卡斯卡底古陆，与圣安地列斯群岛汇合，沿着西海岸向下直至墨西哥，进入南美洲，该地震带的另一部分则要穿越印度尼西亚。

A saddled butterfly fish feeds on gorgonian coral off coast of Palau, an island republic located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) east of the Philippines.

意译：一只蝴蝶鱼食物在可怕的珊瑚虫离开帕劳群岛海岸，一个群岛共和国的位置大约800公里在菲律宾的东侧。

It's another clash between Abu Sayyaf and the Philippine military in the island of Mindanao, where militants have been fighting for decades for an independent Islamic state. Muslims in the Philippines make up five percent of the predominantly Catholic population, and are concentrated in the south of the country. For centuries, they have been independent sultanates. Successfully avoiding Spanish conquest, they were subdued by US forces independently of the rest of the Philippines. However, the U.S. made them part of an independent Philippines in 1946, a move seen by the Muslims as a betrayal of trust. The on-going violence has maimed many local residents, and it is estimated that over 6,000 people require prostheses.

这又是另一起发生在菲律宾民，答那峨阿布沙伊夫回教游击队，与政府军之间的冲突事件，为了当地回教徒独立建国问题，几十年来战乱不断，在菲律宾这个以天主教徒为主体的国家中，只占百分之五的回教徒，他们聚居在南部菲律宾，几个世纪以来，他们有自己的苏丹国王统治，成功地阻挡西班牙入侵，但仍免不了臣服於后来美国的统治，在一九四六年，美国将它与北方群岛合并，成为一个菲律宾国家，被许多回教徒视为背信的行为，迄今持续的冲突事件，造成许多居民受伤残废，估计超过六千名居民需要安装义肢。

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

昨夜日本部队袭击了菲律宾群岛。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。