glacier
英 ['glæsɪə; 'gleɪsɪə]
美 ['ɡleʃɚ]
英文词源
- glacier
- glacier: [18] Latin glaciēs meant ‘ice’ (it probably came from Indo-European *gel- ‘cold’, which also produced English cold and Latin gelidus ‘cold’). Its Vulgar Latin descendant was *glacia, which passed into French as glace (whence English glacé ‘iced, crystallized’ [19]). A derivative glacière was used in Frenchspeaking areas of the Alps for a ‘moving mass of ice’. It later became glacier, the form in which English borrowed it. Glacial [17] comes from the Latin derivative glaciālis.
=> cold, glance, jelly - glacier (n.)
- 1744, from French glacier (16c.), from Savoy dialect glacière "moving mass of ice," from Old French glace "ice," from Vulgar Latin *glacia (source also of Old Provençal glassa, Italian ghiaccia), from Latin glacies "ice" (see glacial). The German Swiss form gletscher also was used in English (1764).
双语例句
- 1. The best bit was walking along the glacier.
- 最好的部分就是沿着冰川走。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The glacier calved a large iceberg.
- 冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.
- 冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙.
来自辞典例句
- 4. The glacier scooped a canyon out of rocks.
- 冰河在礁石中冲出了一条河谷.
来自辞典例句
- 5. The glacier dislocated the great stones.
- 冰河搬动了巨石.
来自辞典例句