Antarctic continent 南极大陆;南极洲
- The plane has now slowed down. We have reached the Antarctic continent.
我们终于抵达了久违的南极大陆。 - Australia didn’t seem to count and as the OED put it “geographers have speculated on the existence of an Antarctic Continent.”
澳大利亚似乎算不上一个洲,OED中对澳洲是这般表述的:地理学家已经对一个南极大陆存在的可能性作出了推测。 - When you sail south you don’t exactly find the Antarctic continent. Rather, it gathers round you in the shape of icebergs, islands, coves and bays.
当船只朝南航行时,你不会很确切地发现南极大陆,而是在四周看见冰山、岛屿、海岬和海湾。
antarctic continent[ noun ]
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
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Antarctica is twice the size of Australia