ice sheet

美 　英

• n.冰原；冰蓋
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)冰層；大冰原；冰川

詞形變化

復(fù)數(shù)：ice sheets  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.	1. (長期覆蓋著陸地的)大冰原

英英解釋

n.	1. an ice cap

例句

It's unlikely the water, at least at this site, is in the form of an ice sheet, Colaprete said.

這些水不太可能以冰原的形態(tài)存在，起碼在這個地點不是，克拉普雷特說。

However, the transport of a large ice sheet might be expected to mark the playa surface in other ways - these marks have not been found.

但是，這種大型冰蓋的移動很可能會產(chǎn)生其他的痕跡，而我們現(xiàn)在仍然什么都沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)。

A helicopter will take her to Swiss Camp, a research station on the ice sheet with its own sauna.

她將乘坐直升飛機前往建于冰蓋上配有桑拿浴室的研究基站SwissCamp。

Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.

到二月，它已然成為了默茨冰川的突出部分，從東南極冰蓋延伸入南大洋。

The strait's status in turn affected ocean currents, which affected the rate of ice sheet melting during the last glacial period.

在上次冰河時代，白令海峽這種周期性的開閉，影響了洋流，進(jìn)而影響冰蓋融化的速度。

His paper warned that the vast ice sheet on the western side of Antarctica might be starting to break up.

他在文章中警告稱，南極洲西側(cè)的大冰原可能已開始破裂。

Now imagine that the ice sheet is vertical rather than horizontal. This should give you some sense of the challenge of ice-climbing.

現(xiàn)在想象一下把水平的冰面立起來，這就會讓你有攀冰的感覺。

But until quite recently, they disagreed over the likelihood of a catastrophic breakup of the western ice sheet in the near future.

但是直到不久前，對于西部冰原不久之后是否會爆發(fā)毀滅性崩解，專家仍有歧見。

But it did not destabilise the ice sheet or provide a new reason to worry about rising sea levels.

但這并沒有導(dǎo)致大冰蓋發(fā)生不穩(wěn)定現(xiàn)象，也無法為海平面上升的擔(dān)憂提供新的依據(jù)。

We just had a number of cameras out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

我們剛在格陵蘭冰原上放出了一些攝相機。

At least 386 lakes have been identified buried beneath the ice sheet, scientists from the University of Edinburgh reported at the meeting.

在該次會議上，愛丁堡大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們報告稱，在南極的冰層下至少埋藏有386個湖泊。

Pine Island glacier (PIG) is one of many at the fringes of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

松島冰川是位于南極西陲冰原上眾多冰川中的一個。

Having begun his career as a sailor, Robin concluded that the mirror like surface must be water underneath the ice sheet.

羅賓的職業(yè)生涯始于航海，他的結(jié)論是，那些鏡子般的表面必然是冰原下的水。

THAT THE AREA of the West Antarctic ice sheet drained by the Ross ice streams is in less danger of imminent collapse is good news.

南極洲西部冰原被羅斯冰流帶走的面積，還沒有到達(dá)立即崩解的地步，這可是一項好消息；

Even under such conditions, it would still take thousands of years for the Greenland ice sheet to disappear, Steffen said.

即便在這種情況下，可能還要持續(xù)數(shù)千年，格陵蘭冰蓋才會徹底消失。

The only uncertainty is the time it would take for complete ice sheet disintegration.

唯一不確定的是要多久完整的冰層才會分崩離析。

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

藍(lán)色條紋通常是當(dāng)冰層上的裂縫被融冰填充再極速凝固的過程中沒有產(chǎn)生氣泡而形成的狀態(tài)。

Melt along the southern edge of Greenland's ice sheet is now moving up its northwest coast, a new study shows.

一項新的研究表明，格陵蘭冰蓋南部沿線的冰融如今正蔓延到它的西北海岸線。

But by whatever mechanism, the giant Greenland ice sheet was accelerating across its rocky moorings and toward the sea.

不過，不管是何種機制，格陵蘭冰原正從巖石上方加速向海面滑動。

The current form of the Mississippi River basin was largely shaped by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet of the most recent Ice Age.

密西西比河目前的結(jié)構(gòu)絕大部分是由最近的冰川時代的科迪拉山系的冰川形成的。

Several metres of sea level rise is now inevitable as the Greenland ice sheet disappears.

現(xiàn)在，隨著格陵蘭冰原的消失，海平面上升幾米已是不可避免。

There is 10 feet of sea level rise stored up in the unstable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet.

西南極冰架的不穩(wěn)定部分一旦融化，會讓海平面上升10英尺。

He teaches his son how to use computer to predict whether the ice - sheet on a near-by lake is thick enough to skate.

他還教兒子用電腦計算附近湖泊的冰層厚度是否宜于溜冰；

The rumblings of glacial earthquakes have become increasingly frequent along the ice sheet's outlet glaciers.

沿著注出冰河，冰河地震發(fā)出的隆隆聲也越來越頻繁。

although building of glaciers is slow , once an ice sheet begins to collapse , its demise can be spectacularly rapid.

雖然冰河的形成很慢，但是一旦冰原開始瓦解，冰河的死期就不遠(yuǎn)了。

The instrument's nervous system comprises 86 strands of light detectors, stretching down into the ice sheet like oversize strings of pearls.

站中那個由86根光探測器組成的神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)像一串巨大的珍珠項鏈深入冰層。

The Greenland Ice Sheet, a large mass of ice that covers most of Greenland, has been melting at an increasing rate since the early 1990s.

從二十世紀(jì)90年代起，覆蓋格林蘭島大部分區(qū)域的格林蘭冰蓋以越來越快的速度融化。

Westerners may shrug at the decline of traditional hunting but, in a sense, we all live on the Greenland ice sheet now.

西方人也許對傳統(tǒng)捕獵的減少不以為然，但是，從某種意義上來說，我們現(xiàn)在也依靠格陵蘭冰蓋而活。

Former Vice President Al Gore joined the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nordic countries to discuss the Greenland ice sheet in Copenhagen.

前副總統(tǒng)戈爾參加了北歐國家的部長內(nèi)閣會議，討論哥本哈根格陵蘭冰蓋。

But scientists thought there was much less meltwater, playing a far less important role in ice sheet structure, than the new work suggests.

但是，跟這項新研究的發(fā)現(xiàn)相比，當(dāng)時科學(xué)家們認(rèn)為遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)沒有那么多融水，對于冰蓋的結(jié)構(gòu)也遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)起不到那么重要的作用。

Majestic blue icebergs the size of small islands float outside its harbour; its ice fjord drains 7% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet.

體積堪比小型島嶼的藍(lán)色壯麗冰山漂浮在該城海港外的水域；其冰層峽灣為格陵蘭冰蓋上7%的土地排水防澇。

will install instruments to measure the movement of the ice sheet through the major outlet glaciers.

在格陵蘭，冰河學(xué)家將安裝儀器、透過主要的注出冰河來測量冰原的運動。

As the ice flows towards the coast, grating on bedrock, crevasses and new fractures form in the upper 100 feet of the ice sheet.

隨著冰向海岸流動，在基巖上沖出孔洞，在冰蓋上部100英尺形成冰隙和新的裂縫。

The Laurentide ice sheet retreated and left mass amounts of water in the basins the glacier had carved thus making the great lakes.

勞倫泰德冰蓋退卻，在冰川雕刻的盆地里留下大量的水，從而形成大湖。

While it normally shrinks in summer and grows in winter, this ice sheet is important to the earth for a number of reasons.

它通常在夏季縮小在冬季生長，這些冰對地球很重要是有很多原因。

If Weertman's thinking was correct, it meant that the modern ice sheet was already a shrunken version of its former self.

如果惠特曼是正確的，就意謂著現(xiàn)代冰原已經(jīng)是過去的縮小版。

The numerical modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet is an important way to improve our understanding of the behavior of the ice sheet.

數(shù)值模擬南極冰蓋是提升人們認(rèn)識南極冰蓋演化行為的重要手段。

Placea sphere of nuclear waste in a stable ice sheet and it could melt its way down, the ice re-solidifying behind it.

將核廢料球放入較為穩(wěn)定的冰原，它們會隨著周圍冰的融化向下移動，身后的融冰則又再次凝固。

Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity.

東南極冰蓋內(nèi)部降水與中緯阻塞高壓活動。

"Our theory links an external climate-driven process, the melting of the ice sheet, and earthquakes. "

“我們的理論將外部氣候驅(qū)動過程，冰蓋融化與地震聯(lián)系起來。”