Ice Age

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n.  冰河时代; 冰川期

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牛津词典

noun

• 冰期；冰川期；冰河时代
  one of the long periods of time, thousands of years ago, when much of the earth's surface was covered in ice

柯林斯词典

• 冰河时代;冰川期
  The Ice Agewas a period of time lasting many thousands of years, during which a lot of the earth's surface was covered with ice.

双语例句

• Musk oxen are large mammals that have been around since well before the last ice age.
  早在最后一次冰河时期之前，麝香牛这种大型动物就已经遍布世界各地了。
• There is no reliable way of dating much of the Ice Age.
  目前还没有一个可靠的方法来测定冰川期的大部分年代。
• They find that, during the ice age, a mount of water in the ocean decreased.
  他们发现的，在冰河时期，大量的水在海洋中减少了。
• The hole is the opening to what was a dry cave system during the Ice Age.
  在冰河时期，这个洞是一个岩溶洞穴群的开口。
• During the last Ice Age, this range was scoured by glaciers until most of it was beneath the sea.
  在上一个冰河时期，这些山脉被冰河冲刷侵蚀，直到大部分山脉被淹没在海中。
• Football-sized hail hammers Tokyo and tornadoes destroy Los Angeles International Airport as the world falls into anew Ice Age.
  足球般大小的冰雹砸毁了东京，龙卷风席卷了洛杉矶的国际机场，全球了新的冰河时代。
• Whether the decreased solar activity was somehow responsible for the little ice age is still unknown.
  太阳活动的衰减是否会以某种方式引起小冰川期，这还不清楚。
• In Ice Age 2, the mammoth couple showed off their power, with the male saving the female from a damaged cave.
  在电影《冰原历险记2》中，一对猛犸配偶显示了它们的力量：公猛犸从即将塌陷的山洞里救出了母猛犸。
• Most of the Ice Age spans a period of time for which no element has an appropriate decay rate.
  冰川期的大部分期间都找不到具有合适衰变率的元素。
• The receding glaciers of the last ice age; retiring fogs revealed the rocky coastline.
  最后一个冰川期的消退的冰河；消散的雾显示出多岩石的海岸线。