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

Climate change is causing the polar ice cap to melt.
气候变化导致极地的冰盖融化。
The receding ice cap in Greenland, and the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, are both threats and opportunities for his region, argues Mr Kleist.
Kleist说，格陵兰冰帽的逐渐减少，以及北冰洋海冰的融化都是他所管辖地区的威胁，同时也是机遇。
He said that further warming could trigger polar ice cap melting.
他说进一步的变暖可能触发极地冰帽融化。
But the lowest summer ice cap on record put sea ice far north of the outer continental shelf, the shallow, life-rich shelf of ocean bottom in the Bering and Chukchi seas.
但今年夏天北极冰帽面积缩小至历史最低记录，使海冰推移至白令海和楚科奇海一带底栖生物丰富的浅大陆架外围的远北地区。
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。
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 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。
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。
Effects of global warming evident, as polar ice cap melts.
北极冰盖融化，全球气候变暖的结果。
This could cause the ice caps to melt.
这可能导致地球冰冠融化。