1.(长期覆盖着陆地的)大冰原
1.an ice cap
1.It's unlikely the water, at least at this site, is in the form of an ice sheet, Colaprete said.
这些水不太可能以冰原的形态存在，起码在这个地点不是，克拉普雷特说。
2.However, the transport of a large ice sheet might be expected to mark the playa surface in other ways - these marks have not been found.
但是，这种大型冰盖的移动很可能会产生其他的痕迹，而我们现在仍然什么都没有发现。
3.A helicopter will take her to Swiss Camp, a research station on the ice sheet with its own sauna.
她将乘坐直升飞机前往建于冰盖上配有桑拿浴室的研究基站SwissCamp。
4.Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.
到二月，它已然成为了默茨冰川的突出部分，从东南极冰盖延伸入南大洋。
5.The strait's status in turn affected ocean currents, which affected the rate of ice sheet melting during the last glacial period.
在上次冰河时代，白令海峡这种周期性的开闭，影响了洋流，进而影响冰盖融化的速度。
6.His paper warned that the vast ice sheet on the western side of Antarctica might be starting to break up.
他在文章中警告称，南极洲西侧的大冰原可能已开始破裂。
7.Now imagine that the ice sheet is vertical rather than horizontal. This should give you some sense of the challenge of ice-climbing.
现在想象一下把水平的冰面立起来，这就会让你有攀冰的感觉。
8.But until quite recently, they disagreed over the likelihood of a catastrophic breakup of the western ice sheet in the near future.
但是直到不久前，对于西部冰原不久之后是否会爆发毁灭性崩解，专家仍有歧见。
9.But it did not destabilise the ice sheet or provide a new reason to worry about rising sea levels.
但这并没有导致大冰盖发生不稳定现象，也无法为海平面上升的担忧提供新的依据。
10.We just had a number of cameras out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
我们刚在格陵兰冰原上放出了一些摄相机。