The reason : as fate would have it , global warming appears to also be increasing the amount of potentially deadly multi year ice chunks lurking in the newly opened pathway.
然而跑船的商人们并不急于利用它,究其原因嘛:因为全球变暖注定也将增加多年冰漂移块的数量,这些漂移块暗藏于新开辟航道中,具有潜在的致命威胁。
Ice chunks carried downstream by floodwaters caused by volcanic activity lie on the Markarfljot river bank Friday April 16, some 120km east of the capital Rejkavik, Iceland. AP / Brynjar Gauti
星期五(4月16日),被火山活动引发的洪水卷到下游的大冰块躺在在冰岛首都雷克雅未克以东约120公里处的马卡弗约特(Markarfljot)河岸上。
He freezes Ink into ice chunks of various shapes, lays them on one or several Xuan papers. Ices are left to melt naturally and patterns are formed. Also he performs the process as an art.
他把墨冻成块,水冻成冰块,墨块做成不同形状有园有方,放置在一张宣纸上渗化,有时是多张宣纸,这本身也是过程艺术,或水墨行为艺术。
In 2008, the Phoenix Mars Lander sent back photos of ice chunks it had found after scooping up handfuls of soil, a huge discovery in the search for liquid water — a key ingredient for life.
2008年,凤凰号火星探测器传回的照片中有经过挖掘土壤而找到的冰块,这在寻找液态水的过程中是一项重大发现——也是生命存在的关键因素。
They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.
他们不得不小心漂浮着的厚冰块。
What looks like an unseemly dash to claim great chunks of the arctic-the sea, the ice, and whatever lies underneath-is precisely that.
看起来并不体面地突然对大块的北极地区——海洋、冰川以及海洋下的任何东西——提出主权要求才是关键。
Cold work: 'Buddy teams' dig out huge chunks of ice using a hand-powered drill to create dive holes in the White Sea, Russia.
钻冰洞:俄罗斯白海,“巴迪队”用手动钻挖出大块的冰,钻出潜水洞。
In Greenland two huge chunks of ice broke off in July and August.
七月和八月,格陵兰岛两个巨大的冰块脱落。
Great chunks of the ice crust, which has covered the mountains through the winter, break off and drop heavily into the thawing sea beneath.
冬日里覆盖着山脉的大块冰壳开始破裂开来,重重地跌落到山脚下正在融化的海水里。
The loose chunks of ice debris within a comet's gaseous body might also prove more of a nightmare than solid asteroids, and scientists still don't know exactly how to deal with the rockier Cousins.
彗星气状星体中松动的冰块也许比固态的小行星还要可怕,况且科学家们还不清楚如何去对付那些更不稳定的“亲戚们”。
Like a frozen asteroid belt, it's littered with chunks of ice and frozen methane and ammonia.
象一个冰冻的小行星带一样,它的上面布满冰柱及凝固的甲烷及氨。
Together, the broken chunks of ice equaled an area of 125 square kilometers, about two times the size of Manhattan Island in New York.
破裂的冰块总共占地125平方公里,面积大概有两个纽约的曼哈顿岛那么大。
Giant chunks of rock and ice soar through its cold expanse with no destination, and no set path.
巨形的岩石和冰块漫无目的,毫无规律地穿行在这片冷寂的广漠空间。
That thick ice was still there, but largely as individual chunks covered with a veneer of new ice that masked their true nature.
这厚厚的冰层仍然存在,但主要是因为这是一些分开的大块被一些虚假的很薄的冰块连接在一起,隐藏了它们真正的厚度。
A recent investigation concluded that they were caught in a hailstorm that dropped chunks of ice the size of baseballs on the victims' heads at more than 100 miles an hour (160 kilometers an hour).
最近的一份调查得出受害者死前遭遇了一场雹暴,落到他们头上的冰雹有棒球大小,同时时速超过100英里(160千米)。
Chunks of sea ice float in the water between the smooth iceberg and the coast.
在大冰山和海岸之间的海水中漂浮着很多浮冰。
The top image was taken just before the arrival of the tsunami at the front of the Sulzberger ice Shelf, while the bottom image shows the chunks of ice well out to sea just five days later.
上图是海啸马上就要到达苏兹贝格冰架时拍摄的,下图是五天后大冰块流到洋面上时拍摄的。
Icebergs will of course be in the water, and due to the earthquakes chunks of ice may loosen thus producing more icebergs near the poles or near the point where glaciers empty into the sea.
冰山当然会在水里,因为地震的缘故,有大块的冰松动,在极点附近或者冰川流入海洋之处产生更多漂浮的冰块。
Icebergs are large floating chunks of ice.
冰山是巨大的漂浮冰块。
Drifting chunks of ice can get caught near them, clogging up the flow of water forming a dam.
漂流的大块冰可以在它们附近阻塞水流形成一个大坝。
Icebergs are created when chunks of pack ice break free and float off into open sea.
当大块积冰断裂、漂浮至远海的时候,冰山就形成了。
Large chunks of the polar ice disintegrated then, and scientists have established that the sea level rose 20 to 30 feet.
当时温度上升到只比今天略高的水平,然后出现了极地冰大解体,科学家发现当时海平面上升了20到30英尺。
Lake Missoula spilled out onto the lowlands in a rumbling, frothy flood peppered by chunks of the shattered ice dam.
密苏拉湖泄人低地,轰隆隆、泛着白沫的洪水上到处是冰堰的碎片。
The flavor's rich cookie dough ice cream is loaded with chunks of chewy, semi-sweet chocolate chip cookie dough. A fan favorite since 1992.
这个口味的饼干口味冰淇淋是将嚼劲十足,带些甜味的巧克力饼干颗粒充分拌匀于其中。自从1992年后就有一群人为其着迷。
It is at this time, out the window, that rays of light begin screaming off dirty chunks of ice, as if looking for a way to leave.
这时,窗外的光线开始在一小块脏冰上呼喊,像寻找离开的方式。
It is at this time, out the window, that rays of light begin screaming off dirty chunks of ice, as if looking for a way to leave.
这时,窗外的光线开始在一小块脏冰上呼喊,像寻找离开的方式。
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