ice-age
/ˈaɪs eɪdʒ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈaɪs eɪdʒ/ (ame, ipa)
ice-age — 名詞
1. a long period in Earth's history, often lasting tens of thousands of years, when
冰河時期
氣候極冷的漫長地質時期
a long period in Earth's history, often lasting tens of thousands of years, when the climate was extremely cold and huge sheets of ice covered much of the land.
Scientists believe the Earth has experienced several major ice ages over the last million years.
科學家認為地球在過去數百萬年間經歷過幾次主要的冰河時期。
countable plural: several ice ages
The last ice age ended roughly 11,000 years ago, as temperatures rose and glaciers melted.
上一次冰河時期大約在一萬一千年前結束，隨著氣溫上升，冰川也融化了。
temporal reference: the last ice age ended
During the ice age, much of northern Europe and Canada lay under thick ice sheets.
冰河時期期間，北歐和加拿大的大部分地區都被厚厚的冰層覆蓋。
Kofi's geography class studied how early humans hunted mammoths during the ice age.
Kofi 的地理課研究了早期人類在冰河時期如何獵捕長毛象。
The museum exhibition showed what the landscape looked like during the last ice age.
博物館的展覽展示了上一次冰河時期地貌的樣貌。
- glacial period
a more technical, scientific term used in geology; 'ice age' is the common everyday word
- glaciation
refers specifically to the process or state of being covered by glaciers; more abstract than 'ice age'
- ice epoch
very formal geological term; rarely used in everyday English
- interglacial
a warmer period between ice ages within an overall ice age cycle
文法句型
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during the ~
用法筆記
Often used with the definite article 'the' (the ice age) to refer to a specific known period, or in the plural (ice ages) to refer to multiple such periods in geological history.