| 单词 | blue ice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue ice blue ice n. ice of a vivid blue colour, esp. in a glacier, formed when a large body of water freezes with few air bubbles; cf. blue band n. ΚΠ 1685 N. Crouch Eng. Empire in Amer. ii. 35 In one place they saw red Geese, and in another blue Ice. 1745 tr. H. Egede Descr. Greenland iv. 55 If you put the blue Ice near the Fire and let it melt, and afterwards remove it to a colder Place, to freeze again, it does not recover its former blue, but becomes white. 1835 J. Ross App. Narr. 2nd Voy. North-west Passage xi. 163 We were safe within the large pack which had accumulated, and could now see additional masses of blue ice attached to its outer edge. 1913 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 21 750 The Allen Glacier..was thicker and more crevassed than in 1911; and in places formerly covered by moraine, blue ice appeared. 2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) vi. 172 I stood and watched..chunks of serac calving from a small hanging glacier, leaving patches of fresh blue ice behind them. < as lemmas |
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