glacier

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlæs.jə/|/ˈɡleɪs.jə/    美 /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
    — They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
  2. An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
    — You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
  3. Something that moves very slowly figuratively
    — The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.

词形变化

glaciers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
glacial glaciate glaciology iceberg

词源

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.
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