单词 | black ice |
释义 | > as lemmasblack ice black ice n. thin hard ice which is transparent and often difficult to see, esp. as deposited on a road in cold weather. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > thin thin ice1625 skim1807 black ice1827 tickly-benders1853 shell ice1875 cat-ice1884 rubber ice1895 sheet icec1900 skim ice1938 1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 75/2 Black ice is discovered between banks of snow, and ramified into numerous transverse, oblique, semicircular, or elliptical branches. 1922 C. S. Wright & R. E. Priestley Glaciol. x. 325 Large sheets of fresh ‘black’ ice a very few inches thick..had evidently formed between the floes. 1961 Guardian 28 Dec. 1/3 Roads in many places were covered with black ice which was hard to detect at night. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iii. ix. 98 The walk concealed a triple hazard: wet moss, patches of black ice, and bricks heaved askew by past frosts. < as lemmas |
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