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floe

/floh/US // floʊ //UK // (fləʊ) //

漂浮物,浮动,漂浮,浮子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
    • : a detached floating portion of such a sheet.

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Examples

  • They have gone out on an ice floe with no obvious way back to shore.

  • Not that Western civilization has never embraced the mythical Inuit practice of leaving the old out on an ice floe.

  • There's a clear passage through the floe, and clear water beyond, the lookout says.

  • No craft like the Grampus could work through a floe, What knots she could run, and what tons she could stow!

  • "Be ready, now," said Kit; when some one of the party on the floe fired on a sudden.

  • About seven o'clock we heard a splashing out along the floe.

  • We towed the carcass up to the edge of the floe, and pulled it up.