subglacial

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /sʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃl̩/|/sʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃɪ.əl/    美 /ˌsʌbˈɡleɪ.ʃ(ə)l/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice. not-comparable
    — These streams continue to flow in winter as well as in summer, although in less quantity; […] It is also this melting beneath the ice (subglacial, suppose we call it) which loosens the ice from the ground, and occasions, or rather permits, the perpetual downward movement, with which "The glacier's cold and restless mass / Moves onward day by day."
  2. Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier; extremely slow. excessive,informal,not-comparable
    — Securing political approval for even modest changes to railway organisation and structure has been of sub-glacial speed and complexity since 2004, when Government abolished the Strategic Rail Authority and put itself in charge.

词汇关系

衍生词
subglacial duct subglacial lake subglacially subglacial rill subglacial stream subglacial volcano

词源

PIE word
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From sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + glacial (“of or relating to glaciers; cold and icy; (figurative) very slow”).
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