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I rushed on to the platform. Yes! the open sea, with but a few scattered1 pieces of ice and moving icebergs2--a long stretch of sea; a world of birds in the air, and myriads4 of fishes under those waters, which varied5 from intense blue to olive green, according to the bottom. The thermometer marked 3" C. above zero. It was comparatively spring, shut up as we were behind this iceberg3, whose lengthened6 mass was dimly seen on our northern horizon. "Are we at the pole?" I asked the Captain, with a beating heart. "I do not know," he replied. "At noon I will take our bearings." "But will the sun show himself through this fog?" said I, looking at the leaden sky. "However little it shows, it will be enough," replied the Captain. About ten miles south a solitary8 island rose to a height of one hundred and four yards. We made for it, but carefully, for the sea might be strewn with banks. One hour afterwards we had reached it, two hours later we had made the round of it. It measured four or five miles in circumference9. A narrow canal separated it from a considerable stretch of land, perhaps a continent, for we could not see its limits. The existence of this land seemed to give some colour to Maury's theory. The ingenious American has remarked that, between the South Pole and the sixtieth parallel, the sea is covered with floating ice of enormous size, which is never met with in the North Atlantic. From this fact he has drawn10 the conclusion that the Antarctic Circle encloses considerable continents, as icebergs cannot form in open sea, but only on the coasts. According to these calculations, the mass of ice surrounding the southern pole forms a vast cap, the circumference of which must be, at least, 2,500 miles. But the Nautilus, for fear of running aground, had stopped about three cable-lengths from a

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adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
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n.冰山,流冰( iceberg的名词复数 ) | |
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n.冰山,流冰,冷冰冰的人 | |
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(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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circumference
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promontory
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ecstasy
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lava
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volcanic
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craters
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n.火山口( crater的名词复数 );弹坑等 | |
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flora
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lighting
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v.发出驴叫似的声音( bray的现在分词 );发嘟嘟声;粗声粗气地讲话(或大笑);猛击 | |
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adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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v.极力声明;断言;确证 | |
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Neptune
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contraction
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fin
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graceful
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expressive
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voluptuous
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mermaid
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n.耳垂( lobe的名词复数 );(器官的)叶;肺叶;脑叶 | |
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n.博物学家( naturalist的名词复数 );(文学艺术的)自然主义者 | |
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jaws
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canine
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v.滑动( glide的过去式和过去分词 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔 | |
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uncommon
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ridge
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barometer
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fins
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[医]散热片;鱼鳍;飞边;鸭掌 | |
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disporting
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