ice sheet

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ice sheet意思解释

n.

大冰原，冰盾；

变形

复数：ice sheets

英英释义

An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than , thus also known as continental glacier.American Meteorological Society, Glossary of Meteorology The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America.

双语例句

用作名词(n.)Photosynthesizing organisms cast a green glow across the sweep of the ice.进行光合作用的生物在冰原上投下一缕绿色。Their presence implies that the West Antarctic ice sheet must have disappeared during that time.从它们的出现可以推论，西部南极冰原在当时应该不存在。