1·Since the first outbreaks in 2003 avian influenza has spread rapidly across Java into Bali, Kalimantan and Sumatra.
自2003年首次爆发以来，禽流感已经从爪哇迅速传播到巴厘、加里曼丹和苏门答腊。
2·Rescue workers are carrying food, tents and clothing to survivors of the tsunami on the remote Mentawai islands, off Sumatra's western coast.
救援人员正在为苏门答腊西海岸以外偏远的明打威群岛上海啸的幸存者送去食物、帐篷和衣服。
3·Indonesia is also rich in volcanoes, the most famous being the now vanished Krakatau (Krakatoa), which was located between Sumatra and Java.
印度尼西亚也是火山众多，最著名的是现在已消失的位于苏门答腊和爪哇岛之间的克拉卡托岛。
4·First impressions of Sumatra are not good.
苏门答腊给我的第一印象并不好。
5·However, the countryside quickly emerges. The jungle is less dense than in Sumatra and contains a wider variety of trees and plants.
巴士很快就驶入了乡村，这里的丛林不及苏门答腊茂密，但有很多种类的树木和植物。
1·Sumatra itself is part of an island arc.
苏门答腊岛本身就是岛弧的一部分。
2·Researchers only realised that the breed living on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra was a new species - distinct from clouded leopards living elsewhere in Asia - in 2007.
到2007年研究人员才发现生活在婆罗洲和苏门答腊岛的云豹是一个新的物种，与亚洲其他地方的云豹明显不同。
3·Fears were growing for hundreds still missing after a huge wave triggered by a powerful earthquake Monday hit the Mentawais off the west coast of Sumatra.
周一，在苏门答腊岛西海岸外的明打威群岛，一场强烈的地震引发巨浪；之后恐惧蔓延，因为尚有数百人失踪。
4·The magnitude 7.6 quake was centred 32 miles north-west of the city in western Sumatra, said the US geological survey.
美国地震调查局称此次地震强度为7.6级，震中位于苏门答腊岛西部的巴东市西北32英里处。
5·Members of the Batak Toba community pray as one of their barefooted members (at far left) enters a mystical state during a Batu Hobon ceremony in Limbong, on the island of Sumatra.
在苏门答腊岛林梦举行的巴图霍邦仪式期间，巴塔克托巴社区成员随着进入神秘的状态一位赤脚成员（左）祈祷。