ice age
ice age — 名詞
1. a very long stretch of the distant past when the world grew so cold that thick s
冰河時期
地球大片陸地被冰覆蓋的寒冷遠古時期
a very long stretch of the distant past when the world grew so cold that thick sheets of ice spread across much of the land
During the last ice age, thick ice buried most of northern Europe.
在上一個冰河時期，厚厚的冰層覆蓋了北歐大部分地區長達數千年。
during the last ice age — fixed time-reference pattern
Haruto explained that woolly mammoths walked the frozen plains throughout the ice age.
Haruto 解釋說，長毛象在整個冰河時期都漫步在結冰的平原上。
Scientists drill into Antarctic ice to study the climate of each ice age.
科學家深入鑽探南極的冰層，以研究每個冰河時期的氣候是什麼樣子。
collocation: study / climate of an ice age
The valley near Reema's village was carved by a glacier during an early ice age.
Reema 村子附近那道深谷，是在一個早期的冰河時期由冰河切割而成的。
Many large animals died out as the planet warmed at the end of the ice age.
隨著地球在冰河時期末期變暖，許多大型動物因此滅絕了。
the end of the ice age — boundary-marking phrase
- the last ice age
- during the ice age
- the end of the ice age
- the next ice age
- glacial period
the technical term scientists prefer for the same span of time
- glaciation
more formal; can also name the process of ice spreading, not only the era
- interglacial
the warmer gap between two ice ages
文法句型
the last ice age
during an ice age
用法筆記
Often used with 'the last' or 'the' to point at the most recent glacial period; with 'an' or a plural when talking about the several such periods in Earth's history.