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A floe is a sheet of ice floating on the sea. People almost always say ice floe, not floe alone. Picture a flat piece of ice, like a broken plate, drifting on cold water — not a tall hill of ice. That taller ice is an , a different thing. A floe can be small enough to see across, or huge, like a field. Ships in very cold seas have to watch for them. The word belongs to sea ice; you would not use it for ice on a pond in a park unless you were stretching it. It is a quiet word: sailors, scientists, and news about polar ice.
浮冰(平平一大片浮在海上的冰)。不是冰山:冰山又高又厚,浮冰是扁平的。
組成It does not split in English. It came in during the early 1800s, probably from Norwegian Nynorsk flo, a layer or slab, from Old Norse fló, also 'layer'.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
floenoun/fləʊ/
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A low, flat mass of floating ice.
- We could never pause when hauling through current-driven slush and ice for fear that the floes would slam together and crush one or both of the hulls.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。