Glacial(英語單詞)

Glacial，主要用作形容詞，主要意思為“冰冷的”等。

基本介紹

• 外文名：Glacial
• 詞性：形容詞
• 英式音標：[ˈɡleɪʃ(ə)l]
• 美式音標：[ˈɡleɪʃ(ə)l]

單詞釋義

英 [ˈɡleɪʃ(ə)l] 美 [ˈɡleɪʃ(ə)l]

adj. 凍的；冰冷的；冰河時代的

短語搭配

glacial acetic acid 冰醋酸；冰乙酸

glacial period [地]冰河時期

glacial lake 冰川湖

glacial ice 冰川冰；流動冰

glacial epoch [地]冰川期；冰河時期

雙語例句

• Isotopic analysis of shells allowed geologists to measure another glacial effect. 對貝殼的同位素分析使得地質學家可以測量另一種冰川效應。
• In all these diverse regions, Agassiz saw signs of glacial erosion and sedimentation. 在這些不同的地區，Agassiz都能發現冰川侵蝕和沉降的痕跡。
• The glacial system is governed by two basic climatic variables: precipitation and temperature. 冰川系統由兩個基本的氣候變數控制：降水和溫度。
• That rate of heating is far greater than during the last glacial retreat some 12,000 years ago. 這一升溫速度遠高於約1.2萬年前的最後一次冰川消退。
• When snowfalls on high mountains or in polar regions, it may become part of the glacial system. 當雪落在高山或極地地區時，它可能成為冰川系統的一部分。
• Over the past two million years, colder glacial periods have alternated with warmer interglacial periods. 在過去的200萬年里，寒冷的冰期與較暖和的間冰期交替出現。
• Between the older layers of glacial material were well-developed soils containing fossils of warm-climate plants. 較古老的冰川物質層之間是發育良好的土壤，它含有（生活在）溫暖氣候中的植物的化石。
• High carbon dioxide levels are associated with warm interglacial periods, and low levels with cold glacial periods. 高二氧化碳含量與溫暖的間冰期有關，低二氧化碳含量與寒冷的冰期有關。
• Ocean sediments presented a much more complete geologic record of the Pleistocene than continental glacial deposits did. 相比於大陸冰川沉積物，海洋沉積物提供了更完整的更新世時期的地質記錄。
• It soon became clear that there were multiple glacial ages during the Pleistocene, with warmer interglacial intervals between them. 很快我們了解到，在更新世存在多個冰川期，其間還包括多個溫暖的間冰期。
• The methane concentration nearly doubled, for example, between the peak of the penultimate glacial period and the following interglacial period. 例如，在倒數第二個冰期的高峰和接下來的間冰期之間，甲烷濃度幾乎增加了一倍。
• With additional time, pressure, and refrozen meltwater from above, the small firn granules become larger, interlocked crystals of blue glacial ice. 隨著時間的推移，壓力的增加，再加上從上方重新凍結的融水，小冰原顆粒成為相互鎖結的大晶體藍色冰川冰。
• Recent studies do in fact show that high carbon dioxide levels are associated with warm interglacial periods, and low levels with cold glacial periods. 最近的研究確實表明，高二氧化碳水平與溫暖的間冰期有關，而低二氧化碳水平與寒冷的冰期有關。
• As geologists mapped glacial deposits in the late nineteenth century, they became aware that there were several layers of drift, the lower ones corresponding to earlier ice ages. 19世紀晚期，在地質學家對這些冰川沉積進行定位的時候，他們意識到有好幾個漂流層，位置較低的對應的是更早的冰川期。
• Interglacial periods are, typically periods of time between Ice Ages, when the climate warms, and the glacial ice retreats for a time, before things cool off again and another Ice Age begins. 間冰期通常是在冰期之間的一段時間，這時氣候變暖，冰川的冰會暫時消退，直到氣候再次變冷，下一個冰期開始。
• Change occurs at a glacial pace. 變化來得極為緩慢。
• Her expression was glacial. 她表情冷淡。
• Relations between the two countries had always been glacial. 這兩國間的關係一直不好。
• The water was always laden with pebbles, gravel, and sand, known as glacial outwash, that was deposited as the flow slowed down. 水裡總是遍布鵝卵石、礫石和沙子——它們被稱為冰水沉積，是在水流減緩時沉積下來的。
• The oxygen isotope ratio of the ocean changes as a great deal of water is withdrawn from it by evaporation and is precipitated as snow to form glacial ice. 隨著大量的水通過蒸發被抽離，並以雪的形式沉澱形成冰川冰，海洋中氧同位素的比率就發生了變化。
• A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow. 剩餘的積雪能夠讓雪集成堆，且由於多年的積雪形成的壓力，剩餘的積雪能夠讓掩埋的雪變成冰川冰，這些冰川凍的厚度足以使冰塊流動。
• Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent. 近代的探險隊已經從綠色冰山和冰核中帶回了一些冰塊樣本，這些樣本呈垂直的圓柱狀，是沿著南極洲大陸的冰川冰架從極深的位置中取出的。
• To locate the optimal drill site, the team had to conduct the first detailed characterisation of the physiography of a sub-glacial lake. 為了確定最佳的鑽探點，研究小組首先要確定詳細的冰河湖的地貌。
• But I can see glacial ice. 但是我看到了冰河的冰。
• Researchers call it the glacial buzz-saw. 研究人員稱其為“冰鋸”。
• Researchers call it the glacial buzz-saw. 研究人員稱之為為“冰山鋸”。
• The good news is that Congress moves at a glacial pace. 好訊息就是國會也在行動。
• It was formed as a limestone cave during the glacial period. 它是於冰河時期形成的石灰岩洞。