2008年12月31日 星期三

Antarctic, housing subdivisions, housing estate

Glaciologist Dr Robert Mulvaney, from the British Antarctic Survey, becomes an OBE. He is one of the world's leading scientists dealing with ice cores.
housing estate UK noun [C] (US housing developmentALSO subdivision)
an area containing a large number of houses or apartments built close together at the same time:
They live on/in a housing estate.

ant・arc・tic


a.Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
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━━ a., n. 南極の; (the A-) 南極; 南氷洋.
antarctic Circle (the ~) 南極圏(限界線).
antarctic Continent (the ~) 南極大陸 (Ant・arc・ti・ca ).
antarctic Ocean (the ~) 南極海, 南氷洋.
antarctic Peninsula (the ~) 南極半島 ((西南極大陸にある半島)).
antarctic Pole (the ~) 南極.

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