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諸島

Reading

Kana: しょとう
Romaji: shotou
Kana
Romaji

Definition

1

archipelago; group of islands

Kanji

Readings: ショ、 もろ
Meanings: various, many, several, together
Readings: トウ、 しま
Meaning: island

Example Sentences

スペインは(むかし)フィリピン諸島(しょとう)統治(とうち)していた。
➥Spain once governed the Philippine Islands.
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(みなみ)諸島(しょとう)のコミュニティの(なか)にはまったくの正反対(せいはんたい)血縁(けつえん)関係(かんけい)のパターンが観察(かんさつ)されるであろう。
➥A diametrically opposed kinship pattern is to be observed among certain South Sea Island communities.
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さらにインド(よう)のモルジブ諸島(しょとう)(なか)には、完全(かんぜん)水没(すいぼつ)する(しま)()ることが予想(よそう)される。
➥And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.
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パプアニューギニア(ちか)くのカーテレット諸島(しょとう)では、海水(かいすい)(いえ)のまわりにうち()せているので、すでに(いえ)(はな)れなければならなくなった(ひと)たちがいる。
➥In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the seawater is washing around their houses.
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