icicle
icicle 英 [ˈaɪsɪkl] 美 [ˈaɪsɪkəl]
n. 冰柱；垂冰；冷冰冰的人
名词复数:icicles
- An icicle is a long thin piece of ice formed when dripping water freezes, like the icicles you see hanging from houses after a winter storm.
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- n. 冰柱；垂冰；冷冰冰的人
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1. Missis walked in', she said, `as chill as an icicle, and as high as a princess.
“夫人走进来了，”她说，“跟个冰柱似的，冷冰冰的，又像个公主似的高不可攀。
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2. The “icicle of death” grew so rapidly towards the seabed that teams could see it advancing before their eyes.
这种朝着海底生长的“死亡冰柱”生长速度很快，摄影人员用肉眼就能观察到它的生长过程。
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3. Visitors have removed artifacts, and the hull is festooned with rusticles: icicle-shaped accretions of iron oxide, otherwise known as rust.
工艺品被移走后，发现船体上结满了一团团的锈：冰柱般的铁氧化物，不像是已知的铁锈。
- icicle (n.) early 14c., isykle, from is "ice" (see ice (n.)) + Middle English ikel, a word that by itself meant "icicle," from Old English gicel "icicle, ice" (found in compounds, such as cylegicel "chill ice"), from Proto-Germanic *jekilaz (source also of Old Norse jaki "piece of ice," diminutive jökull "icicle, ice; glacier;" Old High German ihilla "icicle"), from PIE *yeg- "ice" (source also of Middle Irish aig "ice," Welsh ia). Dialectal ickle "icicle" survived into 20c.
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