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单词 glacial
释义
glacial
adjective
uk
/ˈɡleɪ.si.əl/us
/ˈɡleɪ.ʃəl/

glacialadjective(ICE/COLD)

made orleftby aglacier:
由冰河形成的；冰川造成的
glacialdeposits冰川沉积
extremelycold:
极冷的，冰冷的，冰一般的
glacialtemperatures极低的气温
a glacialperiod极寒冷的时期
Synonyms
Arcticfigurative
biting(COLD)
bitter(COLD)
freezing
More examples
  • There are 1 millionacresofuninterruptedforest, theresultof glacial andclimaticactivity.
  • Thevillagehas aspectacularsetting at thebottomof awideglacialvalley.
  • Most of what youseebelow you is glacialdebris.
  • The milk-greenwaterslookalmostglacial.
  • Theysteppedout into a glacialwind.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Precipitation: snow & ice
  • anti-icing
  • antifreeze
  • avalanche
  • be snowed inidiom
  • be snowed upidiom
  • freezing
  • glaciation
  • glacier
  • glaciology
  • hail
  • icicle
  • pack ice
  • sleet
  • slush
  • snowflake generation
  • snowpack
  • snowstorm
  • terminal moraine
  • thundersnow
  • unfreeze
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Cold

glacialadjective(NOT FRIENDLY)

extremelyunfriendly:
冷若冰霜的，冷冰冰的，冷淡的
She gave me a glacialstare.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not liking or being pleasant towards others
  • unfriendlyThe crowd was unfriendly and dangerous.
  • coolShe was very cool towards his new wife.
  • coldShe's a cold, heartless woman.
  • icyHe gave me an icy stare.
  • glacialHer reception of him was glacial.
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More examples
  • Hisgrinvanishedand hiseyesturnedglacial.
  • "And don'tinsultme," she said in a glacialtone.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not being friendly
  • abrasive
  • abrasively
  • abrasiveness
  • abruptly
  • abruptness
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • coolness
  • dourness
  • estrange
  • estranged
  • estrangement
  • forbidding
  • frigid
  • prickly
  • sourly
  • sourness
  • standoffish
  • standoffishly
  • standoffishness
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glacialadjective(SLOW)

extremelyslow:
Thecaseismovingforwardat a glacialpace.
Thesceneryrolledpast at aspeedthatseemedpositivelyglacial.
More examples
  • Governmentgenerallymovesat glacialspeed.
  • Activistscomplainabout the glacialpaceofchange.
  • Thepaceof themusicisdeliberateand dirgelike, if not glacial.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slow and moving slowly
  • (as) slow as molassesidiom
  • at a snail's paceidiom
  • by and byidiom
  • by degreesidiom
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • drift
  • float
  • inch by inchidiom
  • infiltrate
  • infiltration
  • jog
  • labour
  • lag
  • laggard
  • sluggishly
  • sluggishness
  • snail
  • steadily
  • steadiness
  • struggle
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glacial
noun[C]
uk/ˈɡleɪ.si.əl/us/ˈɡleɪ.ʃəl/
short forglacial period: a verycoldperiodduring the earth'shistorywhenlargemassesoficecoveredmuch of the earth'ssurface:
Anicecoredatingback 740,000yearshasrevealedeighticeages, or glacials,followedbyshorterinterglacialperiods.
Synonym
ice age
More examples
  • Naturalaerosolsare moreabundantin thedrycoldglacials than in thewarm,wetinterglacials.
  • Theirworkshowedhoworbitaleccentricities couldaccountfor glacials and inter-glacials.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Prehistory
  • anatosaurus
  • apatosaurus
  • Australopithecus
  • brachiosaurus
  • broch
  • henge
  • Holocene
  • ice age
  • ichthyosaur
  • iguanodon
  • paleo
  • Permian
  • pictograph
  • Pleistocene
  • Pliocene
  • standing stone
  • stegosaurus
  • stone circle
  • stone-age
  • T-Rex
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(Definition ofglacialfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
glacial
adjective
uk
/ˈɡleɪ.siəl/us
/ˈɡleɪ.ʃəl/

glacialadjective(ICE/COLD)

made orleftby aglacier
由冰河形成的；冰川造成的
glacialdeposits冰川沉积
extremelycold
极冷的，冰冷的，冰一般的
glacialtemperatures极低的气温
a glacialperiod极寒冷的时期

glacialadjective(NOT FRIENDLY)

extremelyunfriendly
冷若冰霜的，冷冰冰的，冷淡的
She gave me a glacialsmile/stare.她向我微微冷笑了一下／冷冷地瞪了我一眼。

Examplesofglacial

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The largest glacials were 2, 6, 12, and 16; the warmest interglacials, 1, 5, 9 and 11.
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There is a general correspondence between glacials in different regions.
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Extensive evidence now shows that a number of periods of growth and retreat of continental glaciers occurred during the ice age, called glacials and interglacials.
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The advent of sediment and ice cores revealed the true situation: glacials are long, interglacials short.
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Rapidglacialerosion of mountain belts likely keeps pace with tectonic uplift, thus limiting the height of mountain belts.
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Viewed from the road above, the crushed glass roof covering and opaque glass skin of the walls dissolve the building into itsglacialcontext.
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In this landscape a powerful combination of natural and artificial land forms exist of a scale reminiscent ofglacialaction or volcanic action or flooding.
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Large graniteglacialboulders unearthed in the mining process.
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There is no systematic correspondence of pluvials to glacials, however.
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There is currently no evidence available for microbes living inglacialice without initially melting it before analysis.
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The registry clerk also noted that theglacialrivers were not so dangerous or difficult to cross as later became dominant in the area descriptions.
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Glacialdrift, both as till and fluvial deposits, is a major contributor to a variety of both micro- and macro-landforms.
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The lake is fed by ephemeralglacialstreams during 6 -8 weeks in the summer.
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Most investigators have accepted aglacialformation, but some prefer a soft-sediment mechanism.
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On short time scales, there seems to be a rather clear relationship between sedimentation rates andglacial- interglacial cycles.
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