ice cap

noun

1. （尤指北极和南极的）冰冠
   a layer of ice permanently covering parts of the earth, especially around the North and South Poles

1. N-COUNT (南北极的)冰盖，冰冠
   The ice caps are the thick layers of ice and snow that cover the North and South Poles.
   1. This could cause the ice caps to melt.
      这可能导致地球冰冠融化。
   2. ...the polar ice caps.
      极地冰冠

1. This could cause the ice caps to melt.
   这可能导致地球冰冠融化。
2. Below that ice cap, no human, no robot had ever been in this place.
   在那冰层以下，没有任何人，任何机器人曾经到过那里。
3. The Antarctic ice cap, the largest expanse of ice on the planet.
   南极冰帽，行星最大的冰层覆盖。
4. The receding ice cap in Greenland, and the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, are both threats and opportunities for his region, argues Mr Kleist.
   Kleist说，格陵兰冰帽的逐渐减少，以及北冰洋海冰的融化都是他所管辖地区的威胁，同时也是机遇。
5. The northern ice cap sits nestled within a deep depression that covers essentially the entire northern hemisphere of Mars and drops in elevation as it nears the pole.
   北部冰冠位于基本覆盖了整个火星北半球的一个深奥的凹陷处的内部，在接近极地处，海拔下降。
6. The extent of the ice cap varies seasonally, and in September 2007 it reached its smallest recorded size.
   冰盖的范围依季节变化，2007年9月到达有记录的最小面积。
7. The Intergovernmental Panel on climate change, the body convened by the United Nations, has said the Arctic ice cap is melting at such a rate that by the middle to end of this century there will be no ice cover during the summer.
   由联合国召集的政府间气候变化问题小组（theintergovernmentalpanelonclimatechange）曾指出，以现在的消融速度，到本世纪中后期，北极冰盖在夏季将不复存在。
8. Melting of the polar ice cap is a global concern because it has the potential to alter the geopolitical balance in the Arctic heretofore frozen in time.
   北极冰帽融化正引起全世界的关注，它有可能改变该地区的地缘政治平衡，这种平衡长期以来因冰冻而固定。
9. But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
   但今年夏天北极冰帽面积缩小至历史最低记录，使海冰推移至白令海和楚科奇海一带底栖生物丰富的浅大陆架外围的远北地区。
10. A primary analysis of mass balance characteristics on small dome of Collins Ice cap, king George island, antarctica
    南极乔治王岛柯林斯冰帽小冰穹物质平衡特征的初步分析
11. The ice cap is cut by deep troughs and chasms;
    冰冠被深深的波谷和坑洞所切开；
12. A nice example is that dreaded polar ice cap.
    这儿有一个很好的例子：对于可怕的极地冰帽。
13. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
    北极圈内的一片辽阔而没有树木的平原，位于冰帽和林木线之间。
14. If the ice cap were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.
    若冰层融化，地球的海平面将平均上升230英尺。
15. In this permanently cold environment, the ice cap from t.
    在这种持续严寒的条件下，冰帽从北极逐渐向南扩展。
16. The UN climate change panel may have been a couple of hundred of years out in its first prediction of the disappearance of the himalayan ice cap.
    联合国气候变化专门委员会对喜马拉雅山冰盖消失的首次预测，或许超前了几百年。
17. This year, the thick ice cap barely penetrates the bull's-eye of the Arctic Circle.
    今年，厚冰盖才刚刚穿过北极圈中心。
18. They believe that if the ice cap melts global average sea level will rise by about seven metres.
    他们认为格林兰的冰层融化会导致全球海平面上升7米。
19. RADAR SOUNDING AND STUDY OF THE BEDROCK TOPOGRAPHY ON COLLINS ICE CAP The thick ice has iced the windshields up.
    柯林斯冰帽雷达测厚和冰下地形研究厚厚的冰已覆盖了挡风玻璃。
20. He said that further warming could trigger polar ice cap melting.
    他说进一步的变暖可能触发极地冰帽融化。
21. The difficult journey was worth it when they reached the ice cap and saw the view.
    他们一路艰难跋涉，但当他们爬上冰帽，看到美景时，发觉这一切都是值得的。
22. Climate change is causing the polar ice cap to melt.
    气候变化导致极地的冰盖融化。
23. He has systematically studied the "decay" process of ice cap in the South Pole and used a quantitative approach to characterize the regional patterns of the evolution of snow to glacier ice.
    他系统研究了南极冰盖雪层的「变质」过程，从定量分析入手，总结出了由雪到冰川冰演化过程的地域分异规律。
24. What will happen if the ice cap of Antarctica melts?
    如果南极洲的冰帽融化，将对地球产生什么影响？
25. It is volcano extrusive be found and verified at the first time in an ice core from Collins Ice Cap.
    这是首次在柯林斯冰帽冰芯中发现并得到鉴定的火山喷出物。
26. You can move through snow-covered and icy terrain at your normal movement. The air picks up moisture from the polar ice cap and bodies of water it may pass over.
    你能以正常速度通过积雪和结冰的地域。空气从它可能经过的北极冰帽和水域吸收水分。
27. Effects of global warming evident, as polar ice cap melts.
    北极冰盖融化，全球气候变暖的结果。
28. The melting of the polar ice cap has made the area more accessible to the majors than ever before.
    北极冰帽融化让大型石油企业比以往任何时候都更容易进入该地区。
29. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
    当然了，极地的冰帽迟早也会融化。
30. The air picks up moisture from the polar ice cap and bodies of water it may pass over.
    空气从它可能经过的北极冰帽和水域吸收水分。

noun

1. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)

   Synonym:    icecap