ice-free

基本解釋

The researchers predict that if current conditions persist, the mountain could be ice-free as early as 2022.
研究人員預(yù)測(cè)如果當(dāng)前的情況持續(xù)下去，該山峰的冰雪將最早于2022年消失殆盡。
Publicity for the latest edition of the atlas, launched last week, said warming had turned 15% of Greenland's former ice-covered land "green and ice-free".
上周泰晤士報(bào)發(fā)起了地圖冊(cè)最新版本的宣傳，并說(shuō)，氣候變暖已把原格陵蘭島15％覆蓋冰的土地變成了“綠色和無(wú)冰”之地。
The Arctic Ocean, which experienced record melting last year, could be ice-free in the summer as soon as 2013, decades ahead of what the earlier models told us.
北極地區(qū)去年創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的融化速度警告我們，按照現(xiàn)有狀況推斷，到2013年夏天最后一塊冰就會(huì)消失。

We were there in early March, and the harbor was ice-free, which is also very unusual for that region.
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In fact, the Arctic Ocean may have been virtually ice-free in September.
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