Snow Patrol

Even if the air stays bitterly cold, these sunbaked rocks can warm enough to melt whatever tiny patches of snow have escaped the thirsty wind.
即使空气十分寒冷，这些裸晒的岩石仍然能有足够的热量去融化那些在饥渴的风里逃过一劫的小雪块。

FOR a policeman on patrol, few calls inspire more gloom than a summons to a domestic dispute.
对巡警来说，几个报警电话会比一张民事纠纷的传票带来更多的麻烦。

Combined with water vapor, sulfur dioxide forms sulfate aerosols, which can spread around the globe, blocking solar radiation and chilling the air before becoming acid rain and snow.
二氧化硫跟水蒸气结合形成硫酸盐气溶胶，这种气溶胶可以遍布全球，在变成酸雨和酸雪之前阻隔太阳辐射，降低气温。

It makes perfect sense, in a way, to cast Betty Boop as Snow White -- but it's also subversive.
从某种角度来讲，让贝蒂娃娃来饰演白雪公主，也完全说得通——但是，也颇具颠覆性。

They are responsible for patching up, rebuilding, stripe-painting, putting up signs and, most winters, ploughing snow.

The air was bitterly cold and snow blew so thick outside the streetcar that Enzo could not see the building facades thirty feet away.
空气彻骨地寒冷，电车外雪吹得这么浓密，使得恩佐看不见三十英尺外的建筑立面。

If a stratum of air saturated with moisture meets a very cold one, the fog begins to freeze, and becomes specks of snow.
如果含水量达到饱和状态的空气遇到了非常冷的另一团空气，空气中的原先呈雾状的水分就开始凝结变成小的雪粒。

For an eruption to have an influence on global climate, the event must be explosive enough to push sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which is above the altitude where rain and snow occur.
除非喷发活动的剧烈性足够将大量二氧化硫喷射到平流层，也就是通常雨雪形成的地方之上，火山喷发才会对全球气候造成影响。

In the East, one storm dropped lots of snow on communities from North Carolina to the New England states on the weekend before Christmas.

but there was a huge snow storm
但是那里下了很大的暴风雪

This morning as I write, the stark gnarl and tangle of winter is sugared with snow, deer tracks stipple the backyard and the pale yolk of the sun is oozing through the thick clouds.
在我写下这些文字的早晨，我望着窗外突兀的树干；如白砂糖般满天飞舞的冬雪，看着自家后院点点雄鹿留下的足迹，天空中淡黄色的太阳光勉力地从厚实的云层里渗出。

It felt good to be out in the weather, that wintry sting of approaching snow.

Some climb mountains, some ski along snow-covered forest trails (see photo), and some join stilt-walk competitions.
有的在山林中沿着长长的雪道滑雪(见图)；

ROME - The United Arab Emirates has signed to buy two 55-meter-long stealthy patrol vessels from Italian shipyard Fincantieri, the firm said Jan. 22.
该公司1月22日表示，阿拉伯联合酋长国已经同意大利船厂Fincantieri签署了购买该公司两艘55米长的隐身巡逻船的合同。

Even when Jon Snow, an iconic British television newsreader appearing in a studio cameo, speaks in iambic pentameter it appears startlingly natural.

They also found natural seeps and diverted small streams of snow melt into small plots of maize, squash and beans.
他们还发现了自然泉水，将细细的融化的雪流引进小块的土地去灌溉玉米、南瓜和豆子。

In 2002 three of my brothers were snowmobiling in the mountains of Colorado when, snow blinded by a sudden squall, they daisy chained over a 400 foot cliff.

In this springtime image, snow caps Llaima’s summit, but the snow-free slopes appear in shades of purple-brown and green, likely a combination of volcanic rock and vegetation.
在这张图像中，春天的亚伊马火山顶峰的雪冠依旧明显，不过无雪的山坡开始被紫褐色和绿色覆盖，那里似乎交错分布着火山岩与植被。

There are dangers in snow sports, however, which must be taken notice of before one pursues the sport.
然而，滑雪运动是有危险的，在参与这些运动之前，必须先注意到这一点。

Snow-White agreed, and went with him, and the wedding was celebrated with great splendour and magnificence.
白雪公主答应了，跟王子回到王宫，举办了盛大的婚礼。