stalactite
stalactite 英 ['stæləktaɪt] 美 [stə'læktaɪt]
n. [地质] 钟乳石
名词复数:stalactites
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- n. [地质] 钟乳石
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1. Water that falls onto the ground below from the growing stalactite can form stalagmites.
正在生长的钟乳石上的水，落到地面上后可以形成“石笋”。
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2. In a dripping, stalactite-filled cave outside of Jerusalem, geologists have unearthed clues about what happened to a bustling civilization more than a millennium ago.
在耶路撒冷外一个潮湿的钟乳石岩洞中，地质学家也许发现了一千多年前那个繁盛帝国到底发生了什么。
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3. Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.
北极以南800英里，钟乳石—像层云—被每小时90英里的大风搅动着，瘀紫色的黎明阳光描绘了英格尔场海湾上的天启肖像。
- stalactite (n.) "hanging formation of carbonite of lime from the roof of a cave," 1670s, Englished from Modern Latin stalactites (used 1654 by Olaus Wormius), from Greek stalaktos "dripping, oozing out in drops," from stalassein "to trickle," from PIE root *stag- "to seep, drip, drop" (source also of German stallen, Lithuanian telžiu, telžti "to urinate") + noun suffix -ite (1). Related: Stalactic; stalactitic.
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