ice cap

英 [ˈaɪs kæp]

美 [ˈaɪs kæp]

n.  (尤指北极和南极的)冰冠

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指北极和南极的）冰冠
  a layer of ice permanently covering parts of the earth, especially around the North and South Poles

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (南北极的)冰盖，冰冠
  The ice capsare the thick layers of ice and snow that cover the North and South Poles.
  1. This could cause the ice caps to melt.
     这可能导致地球冰冠融化。
  2. ...the polar ice caps.
     极地冰冠

英英释义

noun

• a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
  Synonym:icecap

双语例句

• The ice cap is cut by deep troughs and chasms;
  冰冠被深深的波谷和坑洞所切开；
• The difficult journey was worth it when they reached the ice cap and saw the view.
  他们一路艰难跋涉，但当他们爬上冰帽，看到美景时，发觉这一切都是值得的。
• RADAR SOUNDING AND STUDY OF THE BEDROCK TOPOGRAPHY ON COLLINS ICE CAP The thick ice has iced the windshields up.
  柯林斯冰帽雷达测厚和冰下地形研究厚厚的冰已覆盖了挡风玻璃。
• The UN climate change panel may have been a couple of hundred of years out in its first prediction of the disappearance of the himalayan ice cap.
  联合国气候变化专门委员会对喜马拉雅山冰盖消失的首次预测，或许超前了几百年。
• But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
  但今年夏天北极冰帽面积缩小至历史最低记录，使海冰推移至白令海和楚科奇海一带底栖生物丰富的浅大陆架外围的远北地区。
• It is volcano extrusive be found and verified at the first time in an ice core from Collins Ice Cap.
  这是首次在柯林斯冰帽冰芯中发现并得到鉴定的火山喷出物。
• This year, the thick ice cap barely penetrates the bull's-eye of the Arctic Circle.
  今年，厚冰盖才刚刚穿过北极圈中心。
• The receding ice cap in Greenland, and the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, are both threats and opportunities for his region, argues Mr Kleist.
  Kleist说，格陵兰冰帽的逐渐减少，以及北冰洋海冰的融化都是他所管辖地区的威胁，同时也是机遇。
• He said that further warming could trigger polar ice cap melting.
  他说进一步的变暖可能触发极地冰帽融化。
• He has systematically studied the "decay" process of ice cap in the South Pole and used a quantitative approach to characterize the regional patterns of the evolution of snow to glacier ice.
  他系统研究了南极冰盖雪层的「变质」过程，从定量分析入手，总结出了由雪到冰川冰演化过程的地域分异规律。