冰山冰山是大自然最壮观的创造之一,但大多数人却从未看到过冰山,一种朦胧神秘的气氛笼罩着它们。
Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one.
一旦与冰架脱离,这些冰山就会受到南极洲附近的洋流和季风系统的作用,并开始漂移。人们可以在南极洲较暗淡的冰山群中找到这些散落的冰山。
Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.
默茨冰山的形成并不是全球变暖的象征,冰山只是地球环境系统中的一个普通组成。
By itself, the new Mertz iceberg is not a sign of global warming—icebergs are a normal part of the system.
《黑暗冰山》(图6 - 8)是一次对冰山的移动和行为的研究:它们如何互相隔开。
Dark ice (images 6-8) is a study of icebergs' movements and behaviors; the way they space themselves out.
柯达只是占据了胶卷影像冰山上的尖顶,但是截至今天,没有任何一个品牌爬到了数码影像冰山的山顶。
And so far no brand, including Kodak, has managed to climb to the top of the digital-photography iceberg.
首次冰山警报是由了望员FrederickFleet敲响铜钟三声发出,而正是这座冰山导致泰坦尼克号沉没。
The first alarm over the iceberg that was to sink the Titanic was raised by the lookout, Frederick Fleet, ringing a bronze bell three times.
但是,在4月1日这天,当斯密斯运载的所谓南极冰山的大船到达港口时,老天突然开始下雨,船上用泡沫和刨冰块塑造的冰山立马被雨水冲走了,他的恶作剧在大自然力量的作用下露馅了。
It started to rain, and the foam and shaving cream that were posing as ice washed away. (via Museum of Hoaxes)
有一张照片,上面是随冰山漂流的我,冰山周围是融化了的海水,那海原本应该是坚实的。
There's a photograph of me rafting an iceberg, the melted sea all around, the sea that should have been solid.
当我们急忙沿着海湾向北时,水中出现了小白点。先映入眼帘的是冰山残片,接着是小冰山,最后,是一滩半融化的海冰。
As we buzzed north, following the coast, white dots appeared in the water: first growlers, then small icebergs, and at last a mush of half-melted sea ice.
冰山是大自然最壮观的创造之一,但大多数人却从未看到过冰山,一种朦胧神秘的气氛笼罩着它们。
Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them.
当冰山顶融化,冰山会再多浮出水面几乎相同比例。伯兰·肯伯格解释。
If the top melts, the iceberg surfaces out of the water by almost the same share "explains von Blanckenburg."
如果两个岩石群都是冰山携带而来,那么这些冰山肯定非常相似。
If both groups of rocks had been carried by icebergs, the icebergs must have been remarkably similar.
人的意识组成就像一座冰山,‘意识’只是冰山的一角,是很小的一部分。
Just like an iceberg, the conscious mind is only the tip. It is a small part of who we are.
由于冰山的密度比海水要小,一般露出海面的部分只占冰山的十分之一左右。
Because their density is only just smaller than sea water, a portion around one tenth of the iceberg usually sits above the surface.
两名绿色和平组织船员走在一个巨大的冰山上,冰山高出凯恩海湾水面36米。
Two Greenpeace crew members walk along a huge iceberg rising 36 meters from the waters of Kane Basin.
过去这些冰山足有100米高,但最近,在坠入海中前,它们更愿意脱离移动的冰川,冰山变得越来越小了。
The bergs used to reach 100 metres tall, but more recently, as they tend to break from the moving glacier before reaching the sea, the bergs are much smaller.
而相邻的冰山以及在图片左右侧的其他冰山,则显得斑驳陆离有如矿石晶簇一般。
The iceberg next to them, and others along the left and right edges of the image, have mottled surfaces resembling druzy.
澳大利亚南极署冰河学家尼尔·杨说,“这座冰山可能是约十年以前从罗斯冰架上碎裂脱落下来的大冰山的一部分。
Neil Young, an Australian Antarctic division glaciologist, said: "The iceberg is likely to be part of one of the big ones that calved from the Ross ice shelf nearly a decade ago.
佩雷斯·图尼克看到了一些正在融化的冰山,这种冰山在南极大陆是经常都可以看见。
Preztunik caught sight of some melting icebergs, which she said are frequently visible around the continent.
还有一种微乎其微但十分危险的可能性,那就是冰山崩裂——模拟显示如果冰山发生崩裂,将会造成毁灭性的灾难,包括将近200英尺(约60米)高的海浪。
There is also the rare but dangerous possibility of an iceberg fracture — simulations of such a breakup suggest "total chaos" that includes waves almost 200 feet (60 meters) high.
冰山上有些碎冰块,可能是在它从汉博尔德冰川脱落漂走时,其它冰山崩裂落下来的。
This berg has some ice-debris on it that has probably fallen from other ice calvings, as it drifted by the Humboldt glacier that it has calved from.
海洋冲刷冰山形成了海上的山洞,冰山最终消失了。
Sea caves are formed when the ocean washes up against an iceberg, which eventually gives way.
在未来几十年里的某个时候,冰山的消融会减少冰山径流,从而减少对智利城市居民的用水供应。
Some time in the coming decades, the shrinking of glaciers will cause a drop in the level of glacial runoff, reducing the supply of water to urban Chileans.
这些天然冰雕式样繁多,结构奇特,其中包括一种最为神奇的“瑞士干酪”冰山,这种冰山看起来就像是被钻出了许多的深洞,有些洞穴甚至形成了巨大的冰室。
The vast array of frozen sculptures includes 'Swiss cheese' icebergs which appear to have deep holes drilled into them and some that have formed gigantic cathedrals of ice.
当瞭望台(当时还只能通过瞭望台观测到冰山)发现冰山之后,在黑暗中行驶的泰坦尼克号没能在最后一分钟足够灵活地躲开冰山。
The ship wasn't nimble enough to avoid an iceberg that lookouts spotted (the only way to detect icebergs at the time) at the last minute in the darkness.
该平台的设计可抗击六百万吨重的冰山,工程师认为这种冰山发生机率为万年一次,她说平台巨大、工程设计非常到位。
Designed to withstand the impact of a six-million-tonne iceberg, which the engineers thought might occur once every 10,000 years, the platform was enormous and hugely over-engineered, she says.
该平台的设计可抗击六百万吨重的冰山,工程师认为这种冰山发生机率为万年一次,她说平台巨大、工程设计非常到位。
Designed to withstand the impact of a six-million-tonne iceberg, which the engineers thought might occur once every 10, 000 years, the platform was enormous and hugely over-engineered, she says.
侵蚀式:这座巨大的冰山表面被刻上了一条条巨型的纹路,旁边还漂浮着一块较小的冰山,二者有些相似。
Erosion: Giant ridges have been carved into the surface of this massive iceberg which dwarfs another smaller creation floating nearby.
侵蚀式:这座巨大的冰山表面被刻上了一条条巨型的纹路,旁边还漂浮着一块较小的冰山,二者有些相似。
Erosion: Giant ridges have been carved into the surface of this massive iceberg which dwarfs another smaller creation floating nearby.
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