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单词 arctic
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arctic
(ɑːʳktɪk )
1. proper noun
The Arctic is the area of the world around the North Pole. It is extremely cold and there is very little light in winter and very little darkness in summer.
...winter in the Arctic.
...Arctic ice.
2. adjective
If you describe a place or the weather as arctic, you are emphasizing that it is extremely cold. [informal, emphasis]
The bathroom, with its ancient facilities, is positively arctic.
Synonyms: freezing, cold, frozen, icy  
Collocations:
arctic air
Arctic air swept south, bringing record-breaking low temperatures.
Times, Sunday Times
Cold arctic air hit warm subtropical air and supercharged the jet stream, which coincided with unusually high tides.
Times, Sunday Times
Then arctic air brought freezing fogs and mists, followed by snows and blizzards.
Times, Sunday Times
Concurrent with this blizzard was the extremely cold arctic air.
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Arctic air masses in their wake are shallow with a deep layer of stable air above the shallow cold cool.
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arctic conditions
It warned of further misery as global oil prices continue to rise and the arctic conditions eat up fuel.
The Sun
The facility was also used to test naval equipment in freezing arctic conditions, and even the effects of icing on trawler rigging.
Times, Sunday Times
Others prefer lower-input but equally remote options such as flying light aircraft north of the tree line or driving snowmobiles in convoy for thousands of miles in arctic conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
Prepare for cruel messages about survival in arctic conditions and footage showing what a polar bear looks like when it survives on little but moss and seaweed.
Times, Sunday Times
But the visitors created precious little going forward and could have few complaints at the end of a game played in arctic conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
arctic ice
Arctic ice has melted to the second lowest level on record, with a million fewer square miles of sea frozen than in the 1980s and 1990s.
Times, Sunday Times
Stages, wharves and boats disappear during the tail ends of hurricanes or even squalls, but worse was the arctic ice that invade each spring.
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Navigation beneath the arctic ice sheet was difficult.
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For example, ice pieces flowing then jamming a spring river would be modeled very differently from a ship model traversing a simulated arctic ice sheet.
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These ships, designed to be capable of independent operation in arctic ice conditions, were of extremely robust design and had strengthened hulls resembling those of polar icebreakers.
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arctic regions
When deposited, especially on glaciers or on ice in arctic regions, the lower surface albedo can also directly heat the surface.
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These soils occur predominantely in subarctic and low arctic regions of continuous or widespread permafrost.
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They also retained excellent nocturnal vision, and hunting at night in the arctic regions would probably have been their prime hunting method.
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Both show the same configuration of the arctic regions as the 1569 map.
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However, limits are most frequently imposed in alpine and arctic regions.
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arctic tundra
Dark-bellied brent geese are returning to their winter quarters on estuaries and adjacent pastures from their breeding grounds in arctic tundra.
Times, Sunday Times
And later, that one species was nothing: we needed to rescue ecosystems like the rainforest and arctic tundra.
Times,Sunday Times
The project was resurrected in 2004 with a new proposal to transport gas through the sensitive arctic tundra.
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The habitat consists of arctic tundra and alpine and subalpine tundra.
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They also inhabit arctic tundra and semidesert communities.
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arctic weather
And arctic weather and extra days off boosted bookings so far for 2011 by 65 per cent compared to the same period last year.
The Sun
Struggling high-street retailers are being battered by this week's arctic weather, with sales collapsing as shoppers stay at home.
Times, Sunday Times
This taxi-to-table breed has evolved to withstand even the most arctic weather, tights-free.
Times, Sunday Times
He has appropriated hundreds of images from a webcam attached to a meteorological station that clocks the changes in arctic weather and light conditions several times an hour.
The Times Literary Supplement
Net revenues in the first few weeks of this year have fallen by 0.6 per cent, not helped by the impact of the arctic weather on fixture cancellations.
Times, Sunday Times
arctic wind
Arctic winds will make it feel much colder.
The Sun
Arctic winds will cut temperatures even further after they dipped below freezing at night over the weekend.
The Sun
The augmented reality experience will allow visitors to see the aurora borealis, meet a polar bear and cub, and feel the chill of arctic winds on their faces.
Times, Sunday Times
Arctic winds have largely overwhelmed the warm seas and left us freezing cold.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 极冷的, 北极
Japanese: 極寒の, 北極
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