英语释义

• a slowly moving mass of ice

片语

Glacier cap太阳帽；冰帽

Glacier Bay冰川湾

mountain glacier山丘冰川；高山冰川

Moreno Glacier莫雷诺冰川

active glacier[地理]

Byrd GlacierThe Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about 136?km long and 24?km wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the Britannia Range and Churchill Mountains to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf at Barne Inlet.

glacier national park冰河国家公园；国家冰川公园（美国）

cirque glacier[地理][水文] 冰斗冰川

Rongbuk GlacierRongbuk Glacier and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Statio

Totten GlacierTotten Glacier is a large (about 40 miles long and 20 miles wide) glacier off the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Australian Antarctic It drains northeastward from the continental ice but turns northwestward at the coast where it terminates in a prominent tongue close east of Cape Waldro

英汉例句

• beneath an antarctic glacier in a cold, airless pool that never sees the sun seems like an unusual place to search for life.

  ——南极冰川下面有一个阴冷没有空气的深潭，这里常年不见阳光，似乎在这里很难找到生命体。

• the glacier dislocated great stones.

  冰川使许多大石块移位了。

• since we were in the northwest for a wedding, i decided a hike together in glacier national park would be perfect.

  由于我们正在西北地区参加一个婚礼，于是我决定和爸爸一起去冰河国家公园做一次徒步旅行。

• the glacier withdrew inland to the region where its main two tributaries join, and for the last few years, there have been two fast-flowing glaciers where once there was one.

  冰川撤退到有其主要的两个支流加入的内陆地区，在过去的几年里，原本只是一条的冰川分成了两条快速流动的冰川。

• a river or glacier debouches on the plains.

  一条河流或冰川流向平原。

• the water remains frozen until march, when the start of summer melts the new glacier and releases the water into the rivers below.

  水结成冰的情况会持续到三月份，那时夏季开始，新的冰川开始消融，融水将进入下游的河流中。

• glacier national park now has only about 25 glaciers, compared with around 150 a century ago.

  美国国家冰川公园目前只有约25座冰川，而在一个世纪前约有150座。

• a week later students in the high arctic reported that a glacier in svalbard that had been retreating at an average annual rate of 20 metres since 1926 was now retreating by 40 metres a year.

  一周后，在高纬度北极的学生报告说，斯瓦尔巴特群岛的冰川（自1926年以来，曾经以每年平均20米的速度后退）如今在以每年40米的速度后退。

• however, temperature fluctuations have caused glacier growth and depletion.

  然而，温度的波动引起冰川增长和消融。

• the next flu pandemic may be hibernating in an arctic glacier or frozen siberian lake, waiting for rising temperatures to set it free. then birds can deliver it back to civilization.

  未来的流感大流行可能蛰伏在北极冰川或冻结的西伯利亚湖泊之中，等到气温升高就会复活，然后由鸟类重新传播到文明世界。

• the hue is caused by the silt that is finely ground away from the valley walls by the glacier and deposited in the lake.

  之所以会出现这样的色调，是因为淤泥被冰川分成很多远离谷壁的细碎的小块，分散在湖中。

• our guide explains that the ones with rugged, spiky tops are chunks of glacier that have broken off and floated into the sea without flipping over.

  我们的导游解释，冰川崩裂后，厚片没有翻转过来便漂进了海里，这就形成了那些顶上崎岖不平又长又尖的冰块。

• bindschadler scouted locations for the expedition in 2008, when he became the first person to set foot on the crevasse-riddled pine island glacier tongue.

  在2008年宾薛得勒曾前来侦查要考察的地点，那时他是第一个涉足这满布裂缝的松岛冰川舌的人。

• for more than a century, ever since its tongue lapped at the edge of mingyong village, the glacier has retreated like a dying serpent recoiling into its lair.

  一个世纪以前，明永冰川这条巨龙的舌头曾延伸至山下村庄的边缘，而现在这条巨龙已经畏缩到自己的洞穴，奄奄一息。

• do you think we can glide down this glacier ?

  你觉得我们可以从冰河 上滑行下去吗？

• an ice penetrating radar is deployed from a string of four kayaks to survey a section of the petermann glacier in greenland.

  一部冰透雷达安装在连成一串的四艘橡皮船上，用来考察格陵兰岛彼得曼冰川的一个截面。

• by raising sealevels, and therefore the grounding line, in their model, katz's teamwere able to find the point of no return beyond which the glacier wouldbe unable to recover.

  海平面上升，因此在模型中地平线也会上升，卡兹的团队发现存在一个临界点，如果冰川超过该点便无法恢复到从前的状态。

• why is the pine island glacier melting so quickly?

  为什么松岛冰川融化得这么快呢？

• when we arrived there was no glacier to be seen.

  当我们到达那里时，没有看见冰川。那里远在海湾之上。

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