glacier

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n. 冰川

发音

UK /ˈɡlæs.jə/
UK /ˈɡleɪs.jə/
US /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
CA /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
CA /ˈɡleɪs.jɚ/

词形变化

glaciers 复数 glaciers

教材释义与例句

名词

冰河，冰川

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

    冰川

    冰河

    地质

    They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.

  2. 2.

    An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

    体育

    You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.

  3. 3.

    Something that moves very slowly

    比喻

    The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.

词汇关系

名词

下位词 1

continental glacier

部分词 5

ice neve icefall moraine water ice

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词源

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.

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