释义 |
alargeareaoficefloatingin thesea (海上的)浮冰块S.-E.Arndt/PicturePress/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPrecipitation: snow & ice - anti-icing
- antifreeze
- avalanche
- be snowed inidiom
- be snowed upidiom
- freezing
- glaciation
- glacier
- glaciology
- hail
- icicle
- pack ice
- slush
- snow-capped
- snowflake generation
- snowpack
- snowstorm
- terminal moraine
- thundersnow
- unfreeze
See more results » (Definition offloefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- Gentle breezes from the east, south, and south-west did not disturb the hardening floes.
- Soon they would be able to cross from the solid shore ice to the drifting floe.
- The easterly gale would send the floes up stream.
- They found a small floe of level ice close to the beach, which appeared very lately formed.
- We then passed over four or five small floes, and across the pools of water that lay between them.
Examplesoffloefloe On occasion, icebergs were embedded in those floes.From theCambridge English Corpus The large size of the floes, and extensive ridging, probably make them more likely to persist until molting is complete.From theCambridge English Corpus These also link to tidal cracks, thefloeedge, moving ice, and polynyas, as influenced by wind and current conditions.From theCambridge English Corpus Most of those seen offshore were young and non-reproductive, and were seen mostly on large ice floes.From theCambridge English Corpus It also included new images of polar scenes, including naval ships with icebergs, and men hauling boats across the floes.From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, multi-year floes, up to several kilometres long, were scattered throughout the area.From theCambridge English Corpus These also link to thefloeedge, tidal cracks, and polynyas, as influenced by wind and current conditions.From theCambridge English Corpus The survivors were marooned on an icefloeand driven against a large berg.From theCambridge English Corpus These monthly increases in tidal variation can be most destructive on ice conditions, and can cause the greatest variation in polynya size orfloeedge dynamics.From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, it is imperative that they are mindful of the different movements and conditions along thefloeedge to safely cross onto, or back from, the moving ice.From theCambridge English Corpus Many birds were also seen on fast ice, particularly on the heavily ridged outer fringes, that might also be the source of the 'floating island' floes.From theCambridge English Corpus Louise struck heavily and repeatedly against ice floes as she was towed, but suffered no damage, although a towing cable parted at one point.From theCambridge English Corpus Floes >2 km are generally the large multi-year floes referred to in the text, where numbers of emperor penguins were found.From theCambridge English Corpus Uiguaq meaning what's adding on from the existingfloeedge to the new one, and it occurs right through the winter.From theCambridge English Corpus Petrell had hit an icefloeduring a westerly storm and had sunk while the men were away hunting reindeer.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/floe## |