• adj. 冰的；冰冷的；冰河時代的

來自拉丁文glacies, 冰，詞源同cold.

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.

1. The Duchess's glare was glacial.

公爵夫人冷漠地看著。

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2. Her glacial beauty is magnetic.

她冷若冰霜的美令人傾倒。

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3. Change occurs at a glacial pace.

變化極其緩慢。

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4. Her expression was glacial.

她表情冷淡。

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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(qū)都產(chǎn)生了影響。

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