Frozen ponds and ice rinks become playgrounds for skating and hockey.

结了冰的池塘和溜冰场成了溜冰和冰上曲棍球的场地。

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But in Ohio, ice rinks are melting and ski resort owners are working overtime to make snow.

不过在俄亥俄州(有些人就不那么幸运了)，溜冰场内的冰开始融化，那些滑雪场的老板们开始加班加点造雪了。

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Every winter outdoor ice skating rinks appear all over Beijing.

每年冬天，户外溜冰场在北京各处可见。

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Long ago, in the days before passenger ships featured climbing walls, ice rinks, on-board zip lines and nonstop gastronomic gorging sessions, stately ocean liners plied the transatlantic route between London and New York.

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The National Center for Traffic Information described the snowfall as "remarkable" for the Paris region, where heavy snows are unusual, and warned motorists that the wintry conditions could "turn roads into real ice rinks".

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Home to two ice rinks, 18 badminton courts and 10 regulation-size basketball courts, the complex is one of the only legacy buildings - Olympic facilities built specifically to remain after the Games end - that hosted competition.

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