glacial
英 ['gle?s??l; -?(?)l]
美['ɡle?l]
- adj. 冰的；冰冷的；冰河時代的
TEM8GRETOEFL低頻詞
中文詞源
glacial 冰川的
來自拉丁文glacies, 冰，詞源同cold.
英文詞源
- glacial (adj.)
- 1650s, "cold, icy," from French glacial or directly from Latin glacialis "icy, frozen, full of ice," from glacies "ice," probably from a suffixed form of PIE root *gel- (2) "cold, to freeze" (cognates: Latin gelu "frost;" see cold (adj.)). Geological sense "pertaining to glaciers" apparently was coined in 1846 by British naturalist Edward Forbes (1815-1854). Hence figurative sense "at an extremely slow rate," as of the advance of glaciers. Related: Glacially.
雙語例句
- 1. The Duchess's glare was glacial.
- 公爵夫人冷漠地看著。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Her glacial beauty is magnetic.
- 她冷若冰霜的美令人傾倒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Change occurs at a glacial pace.
- 變化極其緩慢。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her expression was glacial.
- 她表情冷淡。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.
- 在前寒武紀的最后1億年中，兩個主要的冰川時期對兩個地區都產生了影響。
來自柯林斯例句