ice cap

英 [ˈaɪs kæp]

美 [ˈaɪs kæp]

n. (尤指北极和南极的)冰冠

牛津词典

noun

（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

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT (南北极的)冰盖，冰冠
The ice capsare 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

英英释义

noun

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

双语例句

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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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？
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。
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。
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。