1. Late one night, the summer my wife and I lived on the mountain, we saw a deer standing on the traffic island at the end of our street. 一个夏日的深夜，我和妻子住在山上，看到一头鹿站在道路尽头的交通安全岛上。
2. The Optic Garden functions as a sculpture on a traffic island celebrating the 2010 World Cup and marking one of the major routes to the inner-city match venues. 这个光学花园是一个功能性的雕塑作品，它被放置在途径南非世界杯场馆的一条公路边，以庆祝这一恢宏赛事在南非举办。
3. After a hard night of drinking Long Island Iced Tea at the University Motor Inn, I had struck one of these traffic cones while driving home. 在大学汽车旅馆喝了一晚上长岛冰茶(一种美国鸡尾酒——译注)后，我开车回家的路上撞上其中一个交通锥标。
4. The Royal Artillery Memorial at London's Hyde Park Corner is an iceberg of dangerous memories, menacing the traffic that circles its island, forcing unpleasant truths from the past into the present. 座落于伦敦海德公园角的皇家炮兵纪念碑是种种危险记忆的冰山一角，威胁着环绕这个岛屿的交通，把过往不愉快的事实摆在人们眼前。
5. The train pulled out without great ceremony and slipped through Singapore's backyards and open Spaces, across the diamond-shaped island to the causeway that carries rail and road traffic to Malaysia. 火车悄无声息地开动了，驶过新加坡郊外的开阔空间，穿过钻石形的岛屿，驶上铁路公路并行的大堤，朝马来西亚方向前进。
