The road was covered with a sheet of ice.
路面结了一层冰。
The lake was covered with a sheet of ice.
湖面上覆盖着一层冰。
The planet was practically covered in ice just a few thousand years ago.
几千年前，地球几乎全部被冰覆盖。
The formation of sea ice causes the concentration of salt in surface waters to increase; less sea ice would mean a smaller increase in the concentration of salt.
海冰的形成导致表水中盐的浓度增加；海冰的减少意味着盐浓度的增加幅度较小。
The Ice Bucket Challenge requires that participants pour a bucket of ice water on themselves.
冰桶挑战要求参与者将一桶冰水倒在自己身上。
He gave a longing look at the ice cream.
他看了看那冰激凌，显出很想吃的样子。
I added a dollop of vanilla ice cream to the pie.
我在馅饼中加了一块香草冰淇淋。
She stopped by the ice-cream shop and had a chocolate cone.
她在冰淇淋店停下买了个巧克力蛋卷冰淇淋。
He had a narrow escape when his car skidded on the ice.
车在冰上打滑，他险些出事。
It was difficult to maintain a secure foothold on the ice.
在冰上不容易站稳脚。
There would be a three-month delay while the deal would be put on ice.
会有3个月的延误，与此同时这笔交易也将暂时搁置。
That sort of approach should go a long way toward breaking the ice.
那种方法应该对打破僵局大有帮助。
There's been a flood of low-fat and light ice creams on the market.
市场上一直有大量低脂低热量冰淇淋。
I'll give a prize to the best idea. Talking of good ideas, here's one to break the ice at a wedding reception.
我将奖励最佳主意。说起好主意，这里就有一个，能活跃婚礼气氛。
There was a period of excessive warmth which melted some of the polar ice.
有段时期温度过高，融化了极地的部分冰层。
It was drilled closer to a location called the ice divide, where stresses would have been lower, they say.
他们说，钻探的地点更靠近一个叫做冰分水岭的地方，那里的压力会更低。
That first touch of ice apparently triggers a biological response inside the frog.
青蛙第一次接触到冰显然会触发其体内的生理反应。
The constantly shifting Khumbu Icefall is like a bunch of ice cubes continually tumbling down the icy mountain wall.
持续变换的昆布冰川就像是一堆连续不断的从冰山墙上翻滚下来的冰块。
What happens is that the ice at the base of the glacier is under a great deal of pressure—the pressure coming from the weight of the overlying ice.
实际情况是，冰川底部的冰承受着巨大的压力——这些压力来自于覆盖在上面的冰的重量。
The dated isotope record shows that the fluctuations in global ice volume over the past several hundred thousand years have a pattern: an ice age occurs roughly once every 100,000 years.
同位素年代记录显示，过去几十万年全球冰量的波动有一个模式：冰河期大约每10万年发生一次。
Someone once said that there's a bit of ice at the heart of every writer.
有人曾经说过，每个作家的心里都有一小块冰。
Scientists agree that the key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is as much as 7000 feet thick.
科学家们一致认为，这一情境中的关键推手是南极西部的冰层，这是一块跟巴西（面积）差不多大小的冰原，厚达7000英尺。
Another important push was the onset of the Little Ice Age, a climatic phenomenon that led to cooler temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere.
另一个重要的推动因素是小冰期的开始，这一气候现象导致北半球气温下降。
Interglacial periods are, typically periods of time between Ice Ages, when the climate warms, and the glacial ice retreats for a time, before things cool off again and another Ice Age begins.
间冰期通常是在冰期之间的一段时间，这时气候变暖，冰川的冰会暂时消退，直到气候再次变冷，下一个冰期开始。
When the bear puts his tail into the water through a hole in the ice, to try and catch a fish, the ice freezes around it, and he ends up pulling his tail off.
当熊把尾巴放到了湖面上的冰洞里面去钓鱼的时候，水在熊尾巴周围结冰了。熊使劲儿往外拔它的尾巴，结果把尾巴拔掉了。
With the temperature rising, polar ice will melt at a faster rate.
随着温度的上升，极地的冰会以更快的速度融化。
Geologists think that this fluidized ejecta crater indicates that a layer of permafrost, or water ice, lies just a few meters under the surface.
地质学家认为，这个具有流体化喷出物的陨石坑表明，在地表下几米深处有一层永久冻土层或水冰。
Complimenting someone on their garment is also a great way to break the ice.
赞美别人的衣服也是打破沉默的好办法。
A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow.
剩余的积雪能够让雪集成堆，且由于多年的积雪形成的压力，剩余的积雪能够让掩埋的雪变成冰川冰，这些冰川冰的厚度足以使冰块流动。
Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice melted away.
有一些变暖是自然发生的。随着上一个冰河时代的结束和冰的融化，我们已经经历了长达20，000年的变暖过程。
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