Glacial
['gleɪsɪəl;-ʃ(ə)l] or ['ɡleʃl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
編輯:奥马尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Icy.[2]. Of glaciers.
埃罗尔校對
解釋/意思:
adj. icy: frozen: pertaining to ice or its action esp. to glaciers.—ns. Glā′cialist one who attributes the phenomena of the drift in geology to the action of glaciers; Glāciā′tion the act of freezing: ice: the process of becoming covered with glaciers.
校對:伊薇特
例句/造句/用法:
- So conversely it will be with the northern hemisphere, while the southern passes through a glacial period. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The explanation, I believe, lies in the nature of the climate before the commencement of the Glacial period. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- When the mass cools it becomes a yellowish, transparent, glacial substance, tough and deliquescent. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Rainier and commands a wonderful view of that mountain, on which there is situated one of the largest glacial systems in the world radiating from any single peak. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Finally, between 40,000 and 25,000 years ago, as the Fourth Glacial Age softened towards more temperate conditions (see Map on p. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Fourth Glacial Age is rising towards its maximum. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have dated the last Glacial Age and the appearance of the true men as about 40,000 or 35,000 years ago. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The glaciers spread southward to the maximum of the Fourth Glacial Age (about 50,000 years ago), and then receded again. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In her eyes, we were a pair of glacial prodigies, coldproud, and preternatural. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The ice of the last glacial age receded gradually, and gave way to a long period of steppe or prairie-like conditions over the great plain of Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But we shall follow the changes more readily, by supposing a new glacial period slowly to come on, and then pass away, as formerly occurred. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Clarke, it appears also that there are traces of former glacial action on the mountains of the south-eastern corner of Australia. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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