Glacier
['glæsɪə;'gleɪsɪə] or ['ɡleʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
手打:纳塔利
解釋/意思:
n. a field or more properly a slowly moving river of ice such as is found in the hollows and on the slopes of lofty mountains.
埃尔希編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The rate at which a glacier moves generally varies from eighteen to twenty-four inches in a day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Perrichon's dogged and undiscouraged attachment to the young man whom he had pulled out of the glacier. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The snowy mountains and blue glaciers shone in their own light. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- How are Glaciers Formed? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Glaciers spread from the poles towards the equator, until England to the Thames was covered in ice. 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.
- Glaciers exist in all zones in which mountains rise above the snow-line, that is, the height where it is so cold that there is always snow. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There are numerous glaciers and mountain lakes and the locality presents many examples of sublime scenery. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In the Cordillera of South America, nearly under the equator, glaciers once extended far below their present level. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- One of the most famous glaciers of the Alps is the Mer de Glace, belonging to Mont Blanc, in the valley of Chamouni, about fifty-seven hundred feet above the level of the sea. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the Lebanon, according to Dr. Hooker, perpetual snow formerly covered the central axis, and fed glaciers which rolled 4,000 feet down the valleys. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
手打:胡里奥