Definition of Arctic in English:

Arctic

adjective ˈɑːktɪk

1Relating to the regions around the North Pole.
（与）北极区（有关）的
an Arctic explorer
北极勘探者。
Example sentencesExamples
- The outbreaks of polar air to middle latitudes are normally balanced by intrusions of mild maritime air from middle latitudes into the Arctic and polar regions.
- Above 85 degrees north, you don't have tropical rainforest, you have Arctic ice fields.
- In 1850 the British Arctic explorer Robert McClure completed a west-east crossing, but the first continuous voyage remained unachieved.
- Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast.
- They hoped to regulate the flow of water between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, and thereby warm the frozen Russian north.
- These birds come from as far as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, the Arctic region, Siberia and Mongolia.
- The cold, salty Arctic waters are denser than the Gulf Stream, however, and they sink rapidly below the still very strong eastbound current.
- The high mountain ridges protect the Fergana Valley and other lowlands from Arctic air masses, but temperatures drop below freezing more than one-hundred days a year.
- Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass.
- While at Berton House, McGoogan completed a first draft of a biographical study on the life of Samuel Hearne, an Arctic explorer whose career began when he was just a lad.
- Dr. Lawver's research areas include the tectonics of the Arctic / Antarctic polar regions.
- Studying this region will help researchers understand how much and in what ways Arctic glaciers and ice caps are contributing to sea level rise.
- Protected by the Alaskan peninsula from cold Arctic waters, the temperature of the ocean off of the Pacific coast varies remarkably little, both across the ecozone at any one time and over the year.
- He was so moved by the beauty and vulnerability of the Antarctic and the Arctic regions that he made a commitment to help preserve these great wilderness area.
- A Downton builder is preparing to trek across the snowy Arctic wastes to the North Pole, for the sake of his sick granddaughter.
- Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest.
- Polar scientists have recruited an unlikely pair to aid their exploration of freezing Arctic waters: two wild white whales.
- Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters.
- In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options.
- He plans to cross into Siberia, using the frozen Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea as his route.
Synonyms
polar
far northern, northern, northerly
rare boreal, hyperborean
1. 1.1 (of animals or plants) living or growing in the region around the North Pole.
  （与）北极区（有关）的
  Arctic plants
  Example sentencesExamples
  Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox.
  The plants include Arctic varieties, alpines, orchids and rarities such as gentians and bloody cranesbills.
  Glaciers cover much of the wild interior; the rolling tundra glows with delicate Arctic flowers.
  Also known as golden or Arctic root, it grows in the Arctic regions of eastern Siberia.
  Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape.
  Still, I wonder if some readers think that the supposed Arctic carnivore Tyrannosaurus helcaraxae, for instance, is already known to science?
  How fast do Arctic fishes grow, and at what age/size do they mature?
  Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal.
  The hares' main predators are gyr falcons, Arctic foxes and Arctic wolves.
  Other selection pressures also may contribute and further modify growth rates or developmental patterns of some species of Arctic geese.
  It was an Arctic wolf, with greyish-white fur and yellow eyes.
  Massachusetts is the southernmost part of their breeding range, since they are truly Arctic birds.
  Such changes directly impact the region's polar bears, since the Arctic predators hunt seals on the winter sea ice and must fast on land during the summer melt.
  Other studies also have concluded that tissue allocation hypothesis does not adequately explain control of growth of Arctic geese.
  But in other large Arctic animals, such as polar bears and seals, these toxins are known to cause serious health problems.
  We think that the specialised high Arctic plants may, in some few places, move up the mountains.
  A key for the identification of 112 Arctic plant species is presented here.
  But the splendid Arctic goose is popular in waterfowl collections.
  Census of Marine Life explorers were surprised by the diversity and density of Arctic creatures
  They made bright designs for their squares, which depicted the earth as well as Arctic animals and scenes.
2informal (of weather conditions) very cold.
〈非正式〉（天气情况）极冷的
February brought arctic conditions
the arctic weather of 1981
Example sentencesExamples
- Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close.
- Both teams deserved medals for turning out in the extreme arctic conditions on the day.
- Snow and ice brought East Lancashire's road to a standstill as drivers battled arctic conditions to get home.
- She liked to be alone and quiet, watching TV, with the heater at maximum temperature in contrast with the arctic weather outside.
- The match kicked off in arctic conditions and the weather steadily got worse.
- The arctic conditions that swept across the country left the streets treacherous, especially my home street.
- But nothing, she shudders, to compare with the arctic conditions on offer in Abroath in February.
- The arctic weather was suddenly forgotten as the team provided three more superb goals and delivered a crushing defeat to a stunned Northampton side.
- Unfortunately because of the arctic weather conditions the match had to be called off at half-time.
- The couple remained hidden from a crowd of fans who braved arctic conditions on Saturday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their idols.
- Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes.
- The warmth seemed to hit them, a welcome relief from the arctic conditions that they had endured on their short walk from the hotel.
- SIR - I would like to put on record what a fantastic job Bradford Council have done in keeping the roads of Bradford open during the recent arctic weather.
- Much of Essex ground to a slithering halt today as arctic conditions brought chaos to roads.
- When the rest of the country is struggling through blinding blizzards and arctic temperatures, its proximity to the Pacific keeps Vancouver relatively mild.
- I know the UK isn't meant to have the best climate under the sun, but we're not meant to match the arctic conditions of the Russian tundra.
- But I do love the winter - most especially the sort of hard, arctic winters of the upper reaches of North America.
- But the arctic conditions we have just experienced are nothing compared to some of the truly awful winters endured by people in the last century.
- Men and women braved the arctic weather conditions and set off on the long trail.
- They have heating too, which is an unexpected bonus given the arctic conditions inside the building.
Synonyms
(bitterly) cold, intensely cold, frosty, wintry
freezing, frigid, frozen, icy, ice-cold, glacial, sub-zero, polar, Siberian
bitter, biting, piercing, cutting, raw, extreme
rare gelid, brumal, rimy, algid

noun ˈɑːktɪk

1the ArcticThe regions around the North Pole.
（与）北极区（有关）的
2North American A thick waterproof overshoe extending to the ankle or above.
〈北美〉（高至或高过脚踝的）防水套鞋
Example sentencesExamples
- In the upper U.S. Midwest, school children know the black rubber, over-the-shoe boot as "four-buckle arctics".
- In fact, the Arctics have kept my feet warmer than plastic double boots under similar conditions.
- Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics.
Synonyms
the far north, the North Pole, the Arctic circle
3A drab-coloured hairy butterfly of the arctic and subarctic regions of the New World.
北极眼蝶
Genus Oenis, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arcticus, articus, from Greek arktikos, from arktos 'bear, Ursa Major, pole star'.

Definition of Arctic in US English:

Arctic

adjective

1Relating to the regions around the North Pole.
（与）北极区（有关）的
an Arctic explorer
北极勘探者。
Example sentencesExamples
- Above 85 degrees north, you don't have tropical rainforest, you have Arctic ice fields.
- Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters.
- Studying this region will help researchers understand how much and in what ways Arctic glaciers and ice caps are contributing to sea level rise.
- These birds come from as far as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, the Arctic region, Siberia and Mongolia.
- The outbreaks of polar air to middle latitudes are normally balanced by intrusions of mild maritime air from middle latitudes into the Arctic and polar regions.
- They hoped to regulate the flow of water between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, and thereby warm the frozen Russian north.
- The high mountain ridges protect the Fergana Valley and other lowlands from Arctic air masses, but temperatures drop below freezing more than one-hundred days a year.
- In 1850 the British Arctic explorer Robert McClure completed a west-east crossing, but the first continuous voyage remained unachieved.
- He plans to cross into Siberia, using the frozen Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea as his route.
- Protected by the Alaskan peninsula from cold Arctic waters, the temperature of the ocean off of the Pacific coast varies remarkably little, both across the ecozone at any one time and over the year.
- Polar scientists have recruited an unlikely pair to aid their exploration of freezing Arctic waters: two wild white whales.
- A Downton builder is preparing to trek across the snowy Arctic wastes to the North Pole, for the sake of his sick granddaughter.
- In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options.
- Dr. Lawver's research areas include the tectonics of the Arctic / Antarctic polar regions.
- He was so moved by the beauty and vulnerability of the Antarctic and the Arctic regions that he made a commitment to help preserve these great wilderness area.
- Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast.
- Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest.
- The cold, salty Arctic waters are denser than the Gulf Stream, however, and they sink rapidly below the still very strong eastbound current.
- Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass.
- While at Berton House, McGoogan completed a first draft of a biographical study on the life of Samuel Hearne, an Arctic explorer whose career began when he was just a lad.
Synonyms
polar
1. 1.1 (of animals or plants) living or growing in the regions around the North Pole.
  （与）北极区（有关）的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such changes directly impact the region's polar bears, since the Arctic predators hunt seals on the winter sea ice and must fast on land during the summer melt.
  Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox.
  But in other large Arctic animals, such as polar bears and seals, these toxins are known to cause serious health problems.
  A key for the identification of 112 Arctic plant species is presented here.
  They made bright designs for their squares, which depicted the earth as well as Arctic animals and scenes.
  Massachusetts is the southernmost part of their breeding range, since they are truly Arctic birds.
  Still, I wonder if some readers think that the supposed Arctic carnivore Tyrannosaurus helcaraxae, for instance, is already known to science?
  The plants include Arctic varieties, alpines, orchids and rarities such as gentians and bloody cranesbills.
  Census of Marine Life explorers were surprised by the diversity and density of Arctic creatures
  Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape.
  Other selection pressures also may contribute and further modify growth rates or developmental patterns of some species of Arctic geese.
  Also known as golden or Arctic root, it grows in the Arctic regions of eastern Siberia.
  But the splendid Arctic goose is popular in waterfowl collections.
  Glaciers cover much of the wild interior; the rolling tundra glows with delicate Arctic flowers.
  How fast do Arctic fishes grow, and at what age/size do they mature?
  Other studies also have concluded that tissue allocation hypothesis does not adequately explain control of growth of Arctic geese.
  The hares' main predators are gyr falcons, Arctic foxes and Arctic wolves.
  We think that the specialised high Arctic plants may, in some few places, move up the mountains.
  It was an Arctic wolf, with greyish-white fur and yellow eyes.
  Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal.
2informal (of weather conditions) very cold.
〈非正式〉（天气情况）极冷的
Example sentencesExamples
- The arctic weather was suddenly forgotten as the team provided three more superb goals and delivered a crushing defeat to a stunned Northampton side.
- Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close.
- But I do love the winter - most especially the sort of hard, arctic winters of the upper reaches of North America.
- Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes.
- Unfortunately because of the arctic weather conditions the match had to be called off at half-time.
- SIR - I would like to put on record what a fantastic job Bradford Council have done in keeping the roads of Bradford open during the recent arctic weather.
- Men and women braved the arctic weather conditions and set off on the long trail.
- Much of Essex ground to a slithering halt today as arctic conditions brought chaos to roads.
- The arctic conditions that swept across the country left the streets treacherous, especially my home street.
- But the arctic conditions we have just experienced are nothing compared to some of the truly awful winters endured by people in the last century.
- They have heating too, which is an unexpected bonus given the arctic conditions inside the building.
- The match kicked off in arctic conditions and the weather steadily got worse.
- I know the UK isn't meant to have the best climate under the sun, but we're not meant to match the arctic conditions of the Russian tundra.
- The warmth seemed to hit them, a welcome relief from the arctic conditions that they had endured on their short walk from the hotel.
- She liked to be alone and quiet, watching TV, with the heater at maximum temperature in contrast with the arctic weather outside.
- But nothing, she shudders, to compare with the arctic conditions on offer in Abroath in February.
- When the rest of the country is struggling through blinding blizzards and arctic temperatures, its proximity to the Pacific keeps Vancouver relatively mild.
- Snow and ice brought East Lancashire's road to a standstill as drivers battled arctic conditions to get home.
- Both teams deserved medals for turning out in the extreme arctic conditions on the day.
- The couple remained hidden from a crowd of fans who braved arctic conditions on Saturday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their idols.
Synonyms
cold, bitterly cold, intensely cold, frosty, wintry

noun

1the ArcticThe regions around the North Pole.
（与）北极区（有关）的
2North American Thick waterproof overshoes extending to the ankle or above.
〈北美〉（高至或高过脚踝的）防水套鞋
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, the Arctics have kept my feet warmer than plastic double boots under similar conditions.
- In the upper U.S. Midwest, school children know the black rubber, over-the-shoe boot as "four-buckle arctics".
- Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics.
Synonyms
the far north, the north pole, the arctic circle
3A drab-colored hairy butterfly of the arctic and subarctic regions of the New World.
北极眼蝶
Genus Oenis, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arcticus, articus, from Greek arktikos, from arktos ‘bear, Ursa Major, pole star’.

单词	Arctic
释义	Definition of Arctic in English: Arctic adjective ˈɑːktɪk 1Relating to the regions around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 an Arctic explorer 北极勘探者。 Example sentencesExamples The outbreaks of polar air to middle latitudes are normally balanced by intrusions of mild maritime air from middle latitudes into the Arctic and polar regions. Above 85 degrees north, you don't have tropical rainforest, you have Arctic ice fields. In 1850 the British Arctic explorer Robert McClure completed a west-east crossing, but the first continuous voyage remained unachieved. Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast. They hoped to regulate the flow of water between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, and thereby warm the frozen Russian north. These birds come from as far as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, the Arctic region, Siberia and Mongolia. The cold, salty Arctic waters are denser than the Gulf Stream, however, and they sink rapidly below the still very strong eastbound current. The high mountain ridges protect the Fergana Valley and other lowlands from Arctic air masses, but temperatures drop below freezing more than one-hundred days a year. Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass. While at Berton House, McGoogan completed a first draft of a biographical study on the life of Samuel Hearne, an Arctic explorer whose career began when he was just a lad. Dr. Lawver's research areas include the tectonics of the Arctic / Antarctic polar regions. Studying this region will help researchers understand how much and in what ways Arctic glaciers and ice caps are contributing to sea level rise. Protected by the Alaskan peninsula from cold Arctic waters, the temperature of the ocean off of the Pacific coast varies remarkably little, both across the ecozone at any one time and over the year. He was so moved by the beauty and vulnerability of the Antarctic and the Arctic regions that he made a commitment to help preserve these great wilderness area. A Downton builder is preparing to trek across the snowy Arctic wastes to the North Pole, for the sake of his sick granddaughter. Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest. Polar scientists have recruited an unlikely pair to aid their exploration of freezing Arctic waters: two wild white whales. Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters. In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options. He plans to cross into Siberia, using the frozen Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea as his route. Synonyms polar far northern, northern, northerly rare boreal, hyperborean 1.1 (of animals or plants) living or growing in the region around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 Arctic plants Example sentencesExamples Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox. The plants include Arctic varieties, alpines, orchids and rarities such as gentians and bloody cranesbills. Glaciers cover much of the wild interior; the rolling tundra glows with delicate Arctic flowers. Also known as golden or Arctic root, it grows in the Arctic regions of eastern Siberia. Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape. Still, I wonder if some readers think that the supposed Arctic carnivore Tyrannosaurus helcaraxae, for instance, is already known to science? How fast do Arctic fishes grow, and at what age/size do they mature? Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal. The hares' main predators are gyr falcons, Arctic foxes and Arctic wolves. Other selection pressures also may contribute and further modify growth rates or developmental patterns of some species of Arctic geese. It was an Arctic wolf, with greyish-white fur and yellow eyes. Massachusetts is the southernmost part of their breeding range, since they are truly Arctic birds. Such changes directly impact the region's polar bears, since the Arctic predators hunt seals on the winter sea ice and must fast on land during the summer melt. Other studies also have concluded that tissue allocation hypothesis does not adequately explain control of growth of Arctic geese. But in other large Arctic animals, such as polar bears and seals, these toxins are known to cause serious health problems. We think that the specialised high Arctic plants may, in some few places, move up the mountains. A key for the identification of 112 Arctic plant species is presented here. But the splendid Arctic goose is popular in waterfowl collections. Census of Marine Life explorers were surprised by the diversity and density of Arctic creatures They made bright designs for their squares, which depicted the earth as well as Arctic animals and scenes. 2informal (of weather conditions) very cold. 〈非正式〉（天气情况）极冷的 February brought arctic conditions the arctic weather of 1981 Example sentencesExamples Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close. Both teams deserved medals for turning out in the extreme arctic conditions on the day. Snow and ice brought East Lancashire's road to a standstill as drivers battled arctic conditions to get home. She liked to be alone and quiet, watching TV, with the heater at maximum temperature in contrast with the arctic weather outside. The match kicked off in arctic conditions and the weather steadily got worse. The arctic conditions that swept across the country left the streets treacherous, especially my home street. But nothing, she shudders, to compare with the arctic conditions on offer in Abroath in February. The arctic weather was suddenly forgotten as the team provided three more superb goals and delivered a crushing defeat to a stunned Northampton side. Unfortunately because of the arctic weather conditions the match had to be called off at half-time. The couple remained hidden from a crowd of fans who braved arctic conditions on Saturday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their idols. Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes. The warmth seemed to hit them, a welcome relief from the arctic conditions that they had endured on their short walk from the hotel. SIR - I would like to put on record what a fantastic job Bradford Council have done in keeping the roads of Bradford open during the recent arctic weather. Much of Essex ground to a slithering halt today as arctic conditions brought chaos to roads. When the rest of the country is struggling through blinding blizzards and arctic temperatures, its proximity to the Pacific keeps Vancouver relatively mild. I know the UK isn't meant to have the best climate under the sun, but we're not meant to match the arctic conditions of the Russian tundra. But I do love the winter - most especially the sort of hard, arctic winters of the upper reaches of North America. But the arctic conditions we have just experienced are nothing compared to some of the truly awful winters endured by people in the last century. Men and women braved the arctic weather conditions and set off on the long trail. They have heating too, which is an unexpected bonus given the arctic conditions inside the building. Synonyms (bitterly) cold, intensely cold, frosty, wintry freezing, frigid, frozen, icy, ice-cold, glacial, sub-zero, polar, Siberian bitter, biting, piercing, cutting, raw, extreme rare gelid, brumal, rimy, algid noun ˈɑːktɪk 1the ArcticThe regions around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 2North American A thick waterproof overshoe extending to the ankle or above. 〈北美〉（高至或高过脚踝的）防水套鞋 Example sentencesExamples In the upper U.S. Midwest, school children know the black rubber, over-the-shoe boot as "four-buckle arctics". In fact, the Arctics have kept my feet warmer than plastic double boots under similar conditions. Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics. Synonyms the far north, the North Pole, the Arctic circle 3A drab-coloured hairy butterfly of the arctic and subarctic regions of the New World. 北极眼蝶 Genus Oenis, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arcticus, articus, from Greek arktikos, from arktos 'bear, Ursa Major, pole star'. Definition of Arctic in US English: Arctic adjective 1Relating to the regions around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 an Arctic explorer 北极勘探者。 Example sentencesExamples Above 85 degrees north, you don't have tropical rainforest, you have Arctic ice fields. Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters. Studying this region will help researchers understand how much and in what ways Arctic glaciers and ice caps are contributing to sea level rise. These birds come from as far as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, the Arctic region, Siberia and Mongolia. The outbreaks of polar air to middle latitudes are normally balanced by intrusions of mild maritime air from middle latitudes into the Arctic and polar regions. They hoped to regulate the flow of water between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, and thereby warm the frozen Russian north. The high mountain ridges protect the Fergana Valley and other lowlands from Arctic air masses, but temperatures drop below freezing more than one-hundred days a year. In 1850 the British Arctic explorer Robert McClure completed a west-east crossing, but the first continuous voyage remained unachieved. He plans to cross into Siberia, using the frozen Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea as his route. Protected by the Alaskan peninsula from cold Arctic waters, the temperature of the ocean off of the Pacific coast varies remarkably little, both across the ecozone at any one time and over the year. Polar scientists have recruited an unlikely pair to aid their exploration of freezing Arctic waters: two wild white whales. A Downton builder is preparing to trek across the snowy Arctic wastes to the North Pole, for the sake of his sick granddaughter. In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options. Dr. Lawver's research areas include the tectonics of the Arctic / Antarctic polar regions. He was so moved by the beauty and vulnerability of the Antarctic and the Arctic regions that he made a commitment to help preserve these great wilderness area. Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast. Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest. The cold, salty Arctic waters are denser than the Gulf Stream, however, and they sink rapidly below the still very strong eastbound current. Measurements from below the ice are only possible at the North Pole as the Arctic ice cap sits on the sea, unlike the Antarctic, which is a land mass. While at Berton House, McGoogan completed a first draft of a biographical study on the life of Samuel Hearne, an Arctic explorer whose career began when he was just a lad. Synonyms polar 1.1 (of animals or plants) living or growing in the regions around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Such changes directly impact the region's polar bears, since the Arctic predators hunt seals on the winter sea ice and must fast on land during the summer melt. Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox. But in other large Arctic animals, such as polar bears and seals, these toxins are known to cause serious health problems. A key for the identification of 112 Arctic plant species is presented here. They made bright designs for their squares, which depicted the earth as well as Arctic animals and scenes. Massachusetts is the southernmost part of their breeding range, since they are truly Arctic birds. Still, I wonder if some readers think that the supposed Arctic carnivore Tyrannosaurus helcaraxae, for instance, is already known to science? The plants include Arctic varieties, alpines, orchids and rarities such as gentians and bloody cranesbills. Census of Marine Life explorers were surprised by the diversity and density of Arctic creatures Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape. Other selection pressures also may contribute and further modify growth rates or developmental patterns of some species of Arctic geese. Also known as golden or Arctic root, it grows in the Arctic regions of eastern Siberia. But the splendid Arctic goose is popular in waterfowl collections. Glaciers cover much of the wild interior; the rolling tundra glows with delicate Arctic flowers. How fast do Arctic fishes grow, and at what age/size do they mature? Other studies also have concluded that tissue allocation hypothesis does not adequately explain control of growth of Arctic geese. The hares' main predators are gyr falcons, Arctic foxes and Arctic wolves. We think that the specialised high Arctic plants may, in some few places, move up the mountains. It was an Arctic wolf, with greyish-white fur and yellow eyes. Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal. 2informal (of weather conditions) very cold. 〈非正式〉（天气情况）极冷的 Example sentencesExamples The arctic weather was suddenly forgotten as the team provided three more superb goals and delivered a crushing defeat to a stunned Northampton side. Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close. But I do love the winter - most especially the sort of hard, arctic winters of the upper reaches of North America. Prone to sudden vicious weather and arctic conditions, Mt. McKinley is a serious mountaineering undertaking even on its easier routes. Unfortunately because of the arctic weather conditions the match had to be called off at half-time. SIR - I would like to put on record what a fantastic job Bradford Council have done in keeping the roads of Bradford open during the recent arctic weather. Men and women braved the arctic weather conditions and set off on the long trail. Much of Essex ground to a slithering halt today as arctic conditions brought chaos to roads. The arctic conditions that swept across the country left the streets treacherous, especially my home street. But the arctic conditions we have just experienced are nothing compared to some of the truly awful winters endured by people in the last century. They have heating too, which is an unexpected bonus given the arctic conditions inside the building. The match kicked off in arctic conditions and the weather steadily got worse. I know the UK isn't meant to have the best climate under the sun, but we're not meant to match the arctic conditions of the Russian tundra. The warmth seemed to hit them, a welcome relief from the arctic conditions that they had endured on their short walk from the hotel. She liked to be alone and quiet, watching TV, with the heater at maximum temperature in contrast with the arctic weather outside. But nothing, she shudders, to compare with the arctic conditions on offer in Abroath in February. When the rest of the country is struggling through blinding blizzards and arctic temperatures, its proximity to the Pacific keeps Vancouver relatively mild. Snow and ice brought East Lancashire's road to a standstill as drivers battled arctic conditions to get home. Both teams deserved medals for turning out in the extreme arctic conditions on the day. The couple remained hidden from a crowd of fans who braved arctic conditions on Saturday afternoon to catch a glimpse of their idols. Synonyms cold, bitterly cold, intensely cold, frosty, wintry noun 1the ArcticThe regions around the North Pole. （与）北极区（有关）的 2North American Thick waterproof overshoes extending to the ankle or above. 〈北美〉（高至或高过脚踝的）防水套鞋 Example sentencesExamples In fact, the Arctics have kept my feet warmer than plastic double boots under similar conditions. In the upper U.S. Midwest, school children know the black rubber, over-the-shoe boot as "four-buckle arctics". Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics. Synonyms the far north, the north pole, the arctic circle 3A drab-colored hairy butterfly of the arctic and subarctic regions of the New World. 北极眼蝶 Genus Oenis, subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arcticus, articus, from Greek arktikos, from arktos ‘bear, Ursa Major, pole star’.
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