Sea ice is ice covering the ocean rather than land.

海冰是覆盖海洋而非陆地的冰。

In the winter, thick ice covers Rainy Lake.

在冬天，厚厚的冰层覆盖了Rainy Lake。

In spring, the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean is melting.

春季里，覆盖北冰洋的海冰在融化。

Indeed, sea ice cover in the Arctic is melting faster than expected.

实际上，北极的海冰盖融化速度比预期的要快。

Those were times, in between Ice Ages, when huge amounts of ice covered Europe.

那时，在冰河期之间，大量的冰覆盖了欧洲。

Pure white snow and ice covered the Earth for as far as he could see.

抬眼望去，皑皑冰雪一直连到了天边。

Most people said that because of the ticks ice covers, " You would find nothing but rocks? "

大多数人说是由于冰盖的作用吗？" 你除了岩石以外，什么都不会发现。"

We know that humans are contributing to the warmer environment and that we're subsequently contributing to diminish ice cover.

我们知道人类促使全球气温上升这加速了冰层的消失。

C) The melting ice cover will destroy the great Antarctic wilderness.

C) 融化的冰盖将摧毁南极的大荒野。

A sheet of ice covered the lake.

【sheet】湖面上覆盖着一层冰。

They blame global warming for the dwindling ice cover on the Arctic Ocean that bears need for hunting seals each spring.

他们认为全球变暖导致了北冰洋冰盖减少，而北极熊每年春天都需要冰盖捕猎海豹。

The scientists say people lived in or passed through the area at a time when ice covered large parts of North America.

科学家说，有人曾在这里生活或者经过这里，那时候，冰层覆盖了北美洲的大部分地区。

Because of the thick sheets of ice covering the continent, Antarctica has the highest average elevation of any continent in the world.

由于这些厚厚的冰层覆盖了这片大陆，相对于世界上任何大陆，南极洲的平均海拔是最高的。

The WMO climate report provides details of ice cover, ocean warming, rising sea levels and gases linked to climate change.

WMO 气候报告提供了与气候变化有关的冰盖、海洋变暖、海平面上升和气体的详细信息。

Winter sea ice covered in the Arctic Ocean have been recorded at its second lowest level since records began nearly 40 years ago.

北冰洋上覆盖的冬季海冰已经达到了近40年来第二低的水平。

That means the year Leavitt was born, a winter on Superior would have included more than a month more ice cover than it does today.

这意味着拉维特出生的那一年，苏必利尔的一个冬天，要比现在长一个多月左右。

In this programme we've been looking at the rate-or speed-of ice melt in Greenland's ice sheet-the thick layer of ice covering a large area of the Arctic.

在本期节目中，我们一直在关注格陵兰岛冰盖——覆盖了北极很大一块面积的厚冰层——的融化速率，或速度。

168.Because the ice continues to dissolve, the delicate layer of ice covering the shallow lake implies that it is impossible to hold an amusing skating race.

由于冰在不断融化，覆盖在这片浅湖上的这层薄冰说明不可能在这举行一场充满乐趣的滑冰比赛。

With climate change shrinking ice cover around the world, glacial archaeologists need to race the clock to find newly revealed artefacts, preserve them, and study them.

随着气候变化使世界各地的冰盖不断缩小，冰川考古学家需要争分夺秒地寻找新发现的人工制品，对其进行保护和研究。

Less sea ice cover over the Arctic will allow more heat to be also to be released from the ocean to the atmosphere in the following autumn and early winter.

北极海冰减少，因此在接下来的秋天和初冬，海洋中更多热量会被释放到大气中。