只是格陵兰岛融化多少冰将会使海平面上升尚不清楚,主要因为融化发生的速度比科学家曾预料的快的多。
It is unclear just how much melting ice from Greenland will push sea levels up, largely because the melting is occurring much more quickly than scientists predicted.
今年的早些时候,科学家们曾发出警告,因为较薄的“一年冰”的比例高于往常,2008年海面冰层的总量会跌至历史新低。
Earlier this year, scientists warned that sea ice volume reached a record low in 2008 due to an unusually high proportion of the thinner first year ice.
月球曾被认为很干燥,而后又有迹象显示在极地的月坑有冰。
The Moon was once thought to be dry. Then came hints of ice in the polar craters.
本周,工程队曾试图将一个100吨重的钢制屋形盖置于漏油点上,不过很快,不断积聚的甲烷冰堵塞了该装置,最终以失败告终。
Efforts failed this week to lower a 100-ton steel containment dome onto the leakage site, because quickly accumulated methane hydrates blocked the device.
这意味着底层曾存在的任何古冰可能已经融化并被新冰取代了(Science,DOI: 10.1126/science.1200109)。
This could mean that any ancient ice that was once there may have melted and been replaced (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1200109).
侍者轻盈地在宾客之间走动,送来冰咖啡和橘子汁,你看不出仅仅在三个星期以前这儿曾发生过的一切。
You could not tell that just three weeks earlier, this place had been in tatters.
像彗星这样的冰状天体曾给年轻的地球提供水和碳基分子,从而促进了地球上生命的起源。
Icy objects such as comets may have helped start life on Earth by delivering water and carbon-based molecules to the young planet.
方素心,居士,素心丝弦创始人,蚕丝冰弦的唯一生产者,曾从事金融、教育行业。
Ms Suxin Fang, a lay Buddhist, founder of Suxin Silk Strings. She is world's only ice silk string maker.
曾记得一个寒冷的冬天,北风呼呼地刮着,天上飘着鹅毛大雪,地上结了厚厚的冰。
Had a cold winter I remember, to whir north, snow goose feather floating in heaven, on the ground end of the thick ice.
曾获奖的休闲中心就在学院对面,有游泳馆,冰道,保龄球馆等。
Award winning Leisure Centre with swimming pools, ice rink, bowling and much more, is just opposite the college.
曾获奖的休闲中心就在学院对面,有游泳馆,冰道,保龄球馆等。
Award winning Leisure Centre with swimming pools, ice rink, bowling and much more, is just opposite the college.
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