And last year the Wilkins shelf, a huge plate of floating ice attached to the peninsula, started to break up, losing some 2,000 sq km in six months.

去年，与南极半岛相连的巨大盘状浮冰威尔金斯冰架开始碎裂，在六个月内失去大约两千平方公里。

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And last year the Wilkins shelf, a huge plate of floating ice attached to the peninsula, started to break up, losing some 2, 000 sq km in six months.

去年，与南极半岛相连的巨大盘状浮冰威尔金斯冰架开始碎裂，在六个月内失去大约两千平方公里。

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I couldn't have been much older than five or six as I sat with my father one afternoon, enjoying ice cream.

一天下午，我和父亲坐在一起，吃着冰淇淋，那时我不过五六岁。

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The flights are part of "Operation Ice Bridge, " a six-year plan described as the largest ever airborne survey of ice at Earth's poles.

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It turned out to be a counteroffer from the IntercontinentalExchange (nyse: ICE - news - people ), a six-year-old Atlanta upstart, which had just finished buying the New York Board of Trade, the futures market for coffee, cotton, sugar and cocoa.

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There's a 1, 366 x 768-pixel capacitive touchscreen, a front-facing camera and a battery that Ice expects will keep the duo running for six to eight hours.

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