南极洲的冰雪融化速度远快于气候模型的预测速度。

Sea ice in the Arctic is melting more rapidly than climate models had predicted.

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与此相似，在地球的另一端南极，科学家们也已发现新的证据：南极洲西部一块和加利福利亚面积差不多大的冰雪正在融化。

Similarly, at the other end of the planet, near the South Pole, scientists have found new evidence of snow melting in West Antarctica across an area as large as California.

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詹姆斯·库克james Cook船长在1775年勘探南乔治亚以后原原本本地报告说这是“一岛屿的冰雪”，他把它误认为是自己要去寻找的南极洲。

Captain James Cook, after exploring south Georgia in 1775, dutifully reported an "island of ice" that he briefly mistook for the southern continent he had been sent to find.

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