| 单词 | glacier |
| 释义 | glacier (once / 688 pages) n A glacier is a very large ice mass, sometimes miles and miles long. Glaciers might not seem all that exciting at first, but people are paying close attention to them because their melting is an indication of climate change. Most glaciers on Earth are found around the North and South poles, but every continent except for Australia has glaciers somewhere in its high mountain ranges. People often want to go see glaciers because they're beautiful, and some you can actually hike across. Luckily, if you get thirsty glaciers are the planet’s largest reservoir of freshwater. You’ll just have to find some way of melting them . . . WORD FAMILYglacier: glaciate, glaciers+/glaciate: glaciated, glaciates, glaciation/glaciation: glaciations USAGE EXAMPLESQ: I can’t get a refund from Amtrak for its totally inappropriate “handicapped” room on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Glacier National Park. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) But an eight point second quarter by Rogers put Glacier Peak in contro. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) He used to doubt climate change was melting this huge Greenland glacier. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) n a slowly moving mass of ice Exp|Hypo|Hyper Great Mendenhall Glacier a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska Alpine glacier, Alpine type of glacier a glacier that moves down from a high valley continental glaciera glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glaciera type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice polar glaciera glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles ice mass a large mass of ice |
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