Madeira

I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding, but I had written to my uncle, John Eyre, in Madeira.

我没有把婚礼的事告诉里德家的表姊妹，但给马迪拉的约翰·爱舅舅写了信。

I give her a xylophone and a sundress from Madeira, and promise to tell her a funny story.

我只给了她一把木琴和来自马德里的背心裙，还答应给她讲个有趣的故事。

Mr. Jackson gave a faint sip, as if he had been tasting invisible Madeira.

杰克逊先生轻轻呷了一口，仿佛是在想象中品尝马德拉葡萄酒。

Madeira is the main island of a Portuguese archipelago of the same name, in the Atlantic off the north-west coast of Africa.

马德拉岛是葡萄牙马德拉群岛的主要岛屿，它位于大西洋，在远离非洲西北海岸的海上。

First, he had brought me a case of bottles full of excellent cordial waters, six large bottles of Madeira wine.

首先，他给我带来了一箱上好的提神酒，六大瓶马德拉酒。

Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.

国际捕鲸委员会在马德拉举行的年会议程中，日本的捕鲸活动一直都是主要的议题。

He waited well over a week to return to the Madeira Beach dock, where he notified authorities.

他过了一个多星期才回到马德拉海滨码头，并在那里通报相关当局。

At least 32 people have been killed in floods and mudslides after torrential rains hit the Portuguese island of Madeira.

暴雨袭击了葡萄牙的马德拉岛，造成了洪水和泥石流，导致至少32人死亡。

A new book claims, the explorer, Christopher Columbus, was the son of a Polish king living in exile in Madeira.

一本新书称，探险家克里斯托弗-哥伦布是被流放到马德拉的波兰国王的儿子。

'I know it, ' said Solomon. 'I am sure of it, ' and he applied himself to a second glass of the old Madeira, with increased relish.

“我知道这一点，”所罗门说道，“我相信这一点，”他更加津津有味地喝着第二杯马德拉陈酒。

Sheila Hull : "I was on holiday in Madeira and I looked over the balcony from our hotel room and saw this lady in the pool"

SheilaHull：“在马德拉度假的时候，我从旅馆房间望出去，在阳台外面的泳池里看到这样一位女士。”

brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with madeira.

番茄、切碎的胡萝卜、洋葱、芹菜组成的焦糖化混合物，用马德拉岛白葡萄酒调味。

Flash floods on the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira killed at least 42 people.

洪水在葡萄牙大西洋岛的马德拉杀死了至少42人

By 2015 Ponta da Madeira, Vale's private port, will be Brazil's largest by tonnage, exporting 230m tonnes of iron ore a year.

截止到2015年，淡水河谷矿业公司的私营港口PontadaMadeira港按吨位计算将会是巴西最大的港口，一年出口铁矿石二亿三千万吨。

He shared the tastes of his English contemporaries: Madeira, his coat of arms and fox-hunting.

他与同时代的英国人兴致相投：喜欢马德拉白葡萄酒，喜欢盾形纹章，还喜欢猎狐。

The Azores and Madeira, ethnically and geographically closest to the mother country, are still part of Portugal.

而种族和地理上都接近于母国葡萄牙的亚速尔和马德拉则仍是葡萄牙的一部分。

Madeira's ancient landscape, together with its 550 species of beetle, merits mention by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1859).

查尔斯-达尔文（CharlesDarwin）的《物种的起源》（1859）一书曾提到马德拉岛的原始景观和550种甲虫。

Portugal is expected to announce three days of national mourning following the floods that have hit Madeira island, killing 42 people.

马德拉群岛遭洪水袭击，致使42人死亡，葡萄牙将要宣布为期三天的全国哀悼日。

Vanity Fair readers have been looking for the Muscles from Madeira without success.

《名利场》的读者们在场上寻找“马德拉之筋”未果。

You can see the Azores in the middle of the ocean. A little below Madeira and further Canary Islands and Cape Verde.

你可以如此清楚地看到大洋中间的亚述尔群岛，下面一点则是马德拉，再远一点是加纳利群岛和佛得角。