glacial
glacial 英 [ˈgleɪʃl] 美 [ˈɡleʃəl]
adj. 冰的；冰冷的；冰河时代的
名词复数:glacials
- Things that are glacial are super cold. A place can be glacial — like the South Pole — but a person can be glacial, too, like that unfriendly girl who gave you a glacial stare.
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- adj. 冰的；冰冷的；冰河时代的
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1. But I can see glacial ice.
但是我看到了 冰河的 冰。
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2. Bacteria trapped in glacial ice for thousands of years could help humans live to 140, scientists claim.
科学家宣称，冰冻在数千年冰川中的细菌可能能够帮助人类活到140岁。
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3. As we motored up, we could see the trim brown cabin sitting at one end of a half moon of pebble beach; at the other end, Cascade Creek tumbled into the glacial gray waters of the bay.
下了船，我们可以看见整洁的棕色小木屋坐落在半月形卵石海滩的尽头。 在海滩的另一端，瀑布溪流跌落到冰冷的灰色海水中。
- glacial (adj.) 1650s, "cold, icy," from French glacial or directly from Latin glacialis "icy, frozen, full of ice," from glacies "ice," probably from a suffixed form of PIE root *gel- "cold; to freeze" (source also of Latin gelu "frost"). Geological sense "pertaining to glaciers" apparently was coined in 1846 by British naturalist Edward Forbes (1815-1854). Hence figurative sense "at an extremely slow rate," as of the advance of glaciers. Related: Glacially.
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