1·The road was covered with a sheet of ice.
路面结了一层冰。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The lake was covered with a sheet of ice.
湖面上覆盖着一层冰。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The ice sheet was assumed to have been stable.
冰盖被默认为是稳定的。
4·Scientists agree that the key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is as much as 7000 feet thick.
科学家们一致认为，这一情境中的关键推手是南极西部的冰层，这是一块跟巴西（面积）差不多大小的冰原，厚达7000英尺。
5·Now, new evidence reveals that all or most of the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years.
现在，新的证据显示，在过去130万年中，全部的南极冰盖或其中大部分至少都崩塌过一次。
6·As Herman Engleheart, a co-author from the California Institute of Technology says, "the West Antarctic ice sheet disappear once and can disappear again."
正如加州理工学院的赫尔曼·恩格尔哈特所说，“南极西部冰盖消失过一次，也可能再次消失。”
7·Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.
当浮动冰架破裂时，对海平面的影响很小；而与之不同的是，固定在基岩上的冰盖将会使海面炸毁。
8·Melt along the southern edge of Greenland's ice sheet is now moving up its northwest coast, a new study shows.
一项新的研究表明，格陵兰冰盖南部沿线的冰融如今正蔓延到它的西北海岸线。
9·Scientists believe the world's great ice sheets will not completely disappear for many more centuries, but the Greenland ice sheet is now shedding more ice than it is accumulating.
科学家们认为，这个世界大冰盖短期内都不会完全消失，然而，如今的格陵兰冰盖脱落的冰却比聚积的冰更多。
10·"The key difference between our model and previous models is that we include heat exchange between water flowing through the ice sheet and the ice," said Rajaram.
“我们的模型和以前模型之间主要的区别是，我们将流经冰盖的水和冰之间的热交换也考虑在内，”拉贾拉姆说。