Snow Patrol

An engine breakdown has sidelined the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea, which was supposed to deploy on its Antarctic patrol this fall, the service announced June 25.
[据防务新闻网站2010年6月25日报道]某服务机构6月25日公布，发动机故障已经使美国海岸警卫队的“极地海洋”号破冰船缺阵执行的任务。 据悉，该船本应该在今年秋季在南极部署，并用于巡逻。

One will board the icebreaker "Snow Dragon" in New Zealand to go to the Zhongshan Station in October and the other 2 will arrive at the Great Wall Station in November.
其中一名科学家将于本月在新西兰登上破冰船"雪龙号"前往中山站，另两名将于11月到达长城站。"

Linda Drake travelled onboard an icebreaker ship to get to Snow Hill Island, which lies off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
琳达在向着雪山岛的破冰船上进行她的旅游，这座岛坐落在北冰洋半岛的东海岸附近。

The Coast Guard's only other polar icebreaker - the smaller research icebreaker Healy - remains operational and started its Arctic summer patrol earlier this month.
海岸警卫队其他的唯一极地破冰船——“希利”——仍然在运作，并于本月初开始了其在北极的夏季巡逻。

Ready for an Arctic iceberg travel. Who dares say streets are not cleaned from snow in Russia?
准备好去北极的冰山旅行了吗？谁还敢说俄罗斯的马路不扫雪？

There is growing evidence that global warming is speeding up the hydrologic cycle—that is, the rate at which water evaporates and falls again as rain or snow.
越来越多的证据显示，全球暖化已经使水文循环加速，换言之，降雨、落雪、再蒸发的速度越来越快。

Or they can take a husky drawn sled ride through the snow.
或可乘坐爱斯基摩犬拉的雪橇游览群山。

"They patrol with vehicles carrying German-made radio detectors to track down and hunt users," he said.
他们开着车，带着德国制造的无线电探测器来跟踪并搜寻手机用户。

Bactrian camels huddle against the snow at Lincoln Park Zoo. Photograph: Michael S Green/AP
蜷缩在雪中的双峰驼，林肯公园动物园。

He was looking into the housekeeper's room on the lower story, where the stove stood on its four iron legs, looking about the same size as the Snow Man himself.
他盯着下层管家的屋子看，那儿，火炉静静地立在四根铁柱子上，看上去和雪人自己差不多大。

This idea, summarised in Snow's subsequent book, The Two Cultures, rapidly became both widely known and hotly debated around the English-speaking world.
这个观点在斯诺后来的《两种文化》一书中得到了总结，它迅速在英语世界里变得广为人知且引起了激烈争论。

I saw the snow mountain stretch long and unbroken, integrity and grandeur , as pure as unicorn's horsehair.
看到绵延的雪山，完整而又壮美，洁白得似独角兽的鬃毛。

Outside the hockey stadium scores of Scott Brown supporters, muffled against the snow and stamping in the cold, wait for their own would-be senator to arrive.
在曲棍球露天体育场外，许多斯科特•布朗的支持者冒着严寒，在冷风中瑟瑟发抖地等待着他们心中的议员到临。

Given theincreased snow and glacier melt in the Himalaya–Hindu Kush region (6), thehydrology of major Asian rivers will be severely affected in the near future.
兴都库什-喜马拉雅区域 【6】积雪融化、冰川消失现象越来越严重，亚洲主要河流的水文地理形态将在不远的将来受到严重影响。

Perhaps in the lee of a hillock or boulder where, in the higher altitudes, dirty clumps of snow still battled the inevitable onslaught of spring.
或许在那些较高处的一个小山丘或大石头的庇荫里，那里变脏的雪堆还在竭力抵抗着不可避免的泉水的冲击。

And we drove a rented car up the highway to the sun, where we watched marmosets scramble around above the snow line, then spent a few days at Kootenai Lodge on Swan Lake.
接着我们驾驶一辆租借的车沿着公路，开向太阳升起的地方，观看狨猴沿着长年积雪的雪线爬行，随后在斯旺莱克的库特内旅馆住了几天。

Tania had seen snow before but only very little as it mostly falls in the Dutch winter, when polar bears hibernate.
塔妮亚以前只见过几场小雪，因为荷兰冬季降雪的季节恰好是北极熊冬眠的时候。

In their most basic form, snow crystals are hexagonal prisms like the sample, above, but other, more complex forms are famously possible.
雪花的最基本结构中，雪晶属于六角晶系，如上图样本。但其他更复杂的结构也是极为常见的。

Brighton is the Queen's henchman, who she sends to kill Snow White.
布莱顿是女王的心腹，一个被派去杀白雪公主的人。

In a moment the red glare from the headlight streamed up the snow-covered track before the siding and glittered on the wet, black rails.
不一会儿，车头耀眼的红灯照射在月台前白雪覆盖的铁路，湿漉漉、黑幽幽的钢轨闪闪发亮。