| 单词 | Greater Antilles |
| 例句 | An island of the archipelago in the South Atlantic between North and South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: divided into the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Greater Antilles islands and a United States territory, Puerto Rico offers excellent coffee tours, delicious rum tours and some of the Caribbean’s best salsa dancing. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Swells generated by Larry will affect the Lesser Antilles, portions of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas through midweek. Hurricane Larry could impact New Jersey, East Coast shores 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Forecasters said heavy rainfall from the system would fall over parts of the Lesser and Greater Antilles over the next few days. Tropical systems threaten to bring heavy rain, flooding 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Based on these accounts, Chenoweth estimates that the storm took a classic west-northwest course across the northern Leeward Islands into the Greater Antilles, one that led to multiple apparent landfalls. Inside the hurricane that drove Alexander Hamilton to America 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Large swells from Teddy were forecast to impact the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and Bermuda, and were expected to impact the U.S. Tropical Storm Beta spurs hurricane worries for Texas 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Large swells from Teddy were forecast to impact the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, and later Saturday were to spread to Bermuda and the U.S. Beta spurs hurricane watch for Texas, expected to strengthen 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Large swells from Teddy were forecast to impact the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, and by Saturday were to spread to Bermuda and the U.S. Beta spurs hurricane watch for Texas, expected to strengthen 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The storm is expected to generate rough surf that will reach the Greater Antilles, Bahamas and Bermuda into the weekend. Tropical Storm Rene forecast to become hurricane, Paulette may near Bermuda 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z As it tracks west toward the Caribbean, hurricane warnings have been issued for portions of the Leeward Islands and the Greater Antilles. Analysis | The Energy 202: EPA takes page from Trump media playbook 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z In the Greater Antilles, anole lizards on four different islands — again, not close kin — carve up the habitat in the same ways, as do mouse-eared bats across different regions in many parts of the world. Does evolution bring the same results no matter what? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Every autumn, tiny forest songbirds known as blackpoll warblers fly 1,500 miles nonstop from New England and Canada to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Greater Antilles. For Blackpoll Warbler, a Lot of Flying for a Lightweight 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z On the second-largest island of the Greater Antilles, these shearing forces forged the highest mountains and deepest troughs of the archipelago. How the World Came to Help Haiti and Left a Disaster 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Trinidad, for example, sits at the far southern edge of the Caribbean, a location historically isolated from Cuba and the other Greater Antilles — the ancestral source of many of the Anolis species in the Caribbean. Lizard Stowaways Revise Principle of Ecology 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The typical black Crows and Ravens do not penetrate into the New World so far south as South America, their range terminating in the highlands of Guatemala and the islands of the Greater Antilles. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z It appears to have been imported early into the Cape Verd Islands, where, as also in some of the Greater Antilles and in Ascension, it has run wild. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Spain lost every possession upon the mainland of both Americas, and the only vestiges of her once vast American empire were the rich islands of the Greater Antilles—Cuba and Porto Rico. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z Katia generated large swells that kicked up the surf and caused dangerous rip currents along the beaches of the Eastern United States, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and parts of the Bahamas, the forecasters said. Tropical Storm Maria forms in Atlantic 2011-09-07T17:14:52Z More than this, the rocks forming the higher portions of the Greater Antilles are largely composed of more or less consolidated ooze, such as is now found on the sea-floor in deep water. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The populations of the Greater Antilles, Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo and Porto Rico were of Arawak stock, as were also the Lucayans of the Bahamas. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Meteorologists saw only a low-pressure system move across the Greater Antilles. Sudden Storm Blasts Through Haitian Tent Cities 2010-09-25T01:09:00Z The Greater Antilles, lying further to the west and north-west, consist of Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, these last being administered by Jamaica. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise A distinction is made between the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and Porto Riro; and the Lesser Antilles, covering the remainder of the islands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The length of the series of banks to the north of the Greater Antilles is about 800, and its average width 120 geographical miles. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Here she had undoubtedly the right by discovery, although not by actual possession, save in the Greater Antilles. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The effect of this change would however be neutralised if at the same epoch the Lesser and Greater Antilles formed a connected land. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Also known from Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles and a few islands in the Lesser Antilles. Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in México The island is most eastern of the Greater Antilles, and it is the fourth in size and importance of all the islands of the West Indies. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... He told of the peaceful Arawaks, the aboriginal inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, agriculturists and eaters of the cassava plant, growers and weavers of cotton, even workers of gold. Plotting in Pirate Seas Four centuries ago the Greater Antilles were exclusively inhabited by Arawaks, and the Lesser by Caribs. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Searching for these islands on the map they appear as three tiny spots lying to the east and southeast of Porto Rico and at the extreme east of the Greater Antilles. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Although the third in size of the Greater Antilles, it comes at a great remove after Hayti, the second, being not more than one-fourth as large. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is one of the four Greater Antilles Islands, and lies east of Haiti and farthest out in the Atlantic Ocean. Little Journey to Puerto Rico For Intermediate and Upper Grades Perhaps the best way would be to name the whole the Antilles or West Indian Islands and divide them, in going from north to south, into the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Caribbees. The West Indies and the Spanish Main If we believe the accounts of the Spaniards the inhabitants of the Greater Antilles were not altogether a savage people. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The atrocities of the Spaniards caused the depopulation of the Greater Antilles, and led to the importation of negroes. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Then to every grant was allotted a certain number of Indians as slaves, and thus the cruel system that ultimately depopulated the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas was introduced. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The island nearest us is Puerto Rico, the most eastern island of the Greater Antilles. Little Journey to Puerto Rico For Intermediate and Upper Grades By this time the natives of the Greater Antilles were gone, and with them the thousands of captives from the mainland. The West Indies and the Spanish Main |
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