floe
floe 英 [fləʊ] 美 [floʊ]
n. 浮冰；大浮冰
名词复数:floes
- An ice floe is a large, free-floating, flat chunk of ice floating in the ocean. Beware: if you're at the North Pole, you could get stranded on an ice floe along with polar bears and other arctic creatures.
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- n. 浮冰；大浮冰
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1. Two crew members parachuted on to a larger floe, and then crawled on their bellies to reach him.
两名搜救成员用降落伞落到一块更大的浮冰上，然后匍匐着去够他。
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2. He said: 'The killer whales were very good at knowing in advance if they were going to be able to wash a seal off a floe and they were always successful in getting the seal into the water.
他说，“虎鲸都知道将海豹赶下浮冰他们就成功了，而且他们也很擅长这么做，非常轻松的就能把海豹弄到水里去。”
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3. An Atlantic walrus calf finds safety on its mother's back while drifting on an ice floe near Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada.
加拿大努勒维特伊格卢利克附近，在浮冰上漂流时，一头大西洋小海象在母亲的背上找到了安全感。
- floe (n.) 1817, first used by Arctic explorers, probably from Norwegian flo "layer, slab," from Old Norse flo, from Proto-Germanic *floho-, from PIE root *plak- (1) "to be flat." Related to first element in flagstone. Earlier explorers used flake. Floe-rat was a seal-hunter's name for the ringed seal (1880).
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