No one quite knows why glaciers and ice shelves are melting so fast, or how a meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet covering six square kilometres could drain away in 24 hours, as it did in 2006.

没有人非常了解为什么冰架这么迅速的融化，也没人知道格林兰冰架上的一个覆盖6平方千米的融水湖会在24小时内流干——这在2006确实发生了。

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The ice, much of it tens of thousands of years old, originates in the 660, 000-square-mile ice sheet covering 80 percent of Greenland.

我们所见的冰，大部分有着上万年的历史，都发源于覆盖格陵兰岛80%面积的66万平方英里冰原。

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I stared back at him with my hard, venomous eyes, covering my sheet up.

我用我冷酷的怨恨的眼神看着他，把我的卷子盖了起来。

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She began to remove the wet sheet covering El Lobo, but her beeper went off.

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Yates had a history of postpartum psychosis, major depression and two suicide attempts before she drowned her children and laid their bodies on her bed, covering them with a sheet.

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