Tonga , long an autocratic monarchy , took a giant stride towards democracy in november , when the country chose its first elected government .
汤加长期以来实行的是君主专制统治,但去年11月该国产生了第一个民选政府,向民主迈进了一大步。
Several hundred years ago , the pacific island state of fiji was a place of refuge for exiled princes from neighbouring tonga .
几百年前,太平洋岛国斐济是从邻国汤加流亡而来的王子们的避难之地。
Yet for all his protestations that king george 's hospitality does not imply a guarantee of immunity for mr mara , tonga 's judiciary remains answerable first and foremost to the king , not the elected government .
Right at the spot where giant volcanoes are sliding to their doom , the tonga trench is surprisingly , seismically quiet . This past summer the researchers scanned the seafloor with sonar to find out why .
If the subduction zone near sendai can produce a great quake , then other areas with similarly old ocean crust might too , says okal , who says that tonga and the northeastern caribbean are regions to look at more closely .
In some small countries lebanon , serbia , haiti , tonga , albania and jamaica are all examples remittances generate more revenues than all merchandise exports put together .
一些小国如黎巴嫩、塞尔维亚、海地、汤加、阿尔巴尼亚和牙买加来自汇款的收入超过了全部商品出口额总和。
As the ship was leaving the area , near tonga , it went through a patch of discoloured water with a strong smell , like rotten eggs , oxford university geologist anthony watts said .
Meteorological officials declared tsunami warnings for a number of south pacific islands , including fiji and tonga , as well as new zealand , but the pacific tsunami warning center later canceled the tsunami warnings after the waves had passed .
The pacific archipelagos of fiji and tonga have for centuries been connected by trade and kinship : tongan princes sailed westwards in outrigger canoes to seek fortune in fiji , while fijians provided spouses for the tongan nobility .