icebreaker的意思|icebreaker的解释-里氏词典

icebreaker ['aisbreikә]

n. 碎冰船, 破冰设备

icebreaker

[ noun ]

a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation

<noun.artifact>

a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere

<noun.act>

he told jokes as an icebreaker

icebreaker \icebreaker\ n.
1. a ship with a reinforced bow and powerful engines designed
to break up layers of ice on waterways and keep channels
open for navigation.

Syn: iceboat.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. A remark or action intended to relieve tension or reduce
formality when initiating conversation or beginning a
speech; it is often a humorous or light remark.
[PJC]

It did not say what happened to them. The weather was very bad with heavy seas when the icebreaker, named the 26th Congress of the Communist Party, detained the Greenpeace ship, the statement said.
In what has been a yearly ritual for a decade, the Coast Guard asks the White House for $300 million to build a new icebreaker and budget officials there always say no, most recently as late as two weeks ago, according to sources.
The newcast, with an estimated audience of 150 million, began with reports on the regular Thursday meeting of the ruling Politburo, the construction of an atomic icebreaker, and private farming plots in a region of the Russian federation.
The only answer would be an icebreaking ship to free the whales, Carroll said, but renewed efforts to contact an icebreaker thought to be in the area failed.
Efforts fail again to contact an icebreaker.
And it wants to organize a regional "meeting" of their leaders, hosted by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, as an icebreaker before serious negotiations.
Soviet help was requested because the United States did not have an icebreaker near the site, off Point Barrow.
After two hours and no movement by the icebreaker, the Eskimos grew impatient.
"It's a social icebreaker," Ms. Drolet says. "With a cane people tend to avoid you.
The North Slope Borough helicopter that flew whale-rescue team members to the icebreaker took Reshetov and several crew members to see the whales.
A Soviet icebreaker dispatched to rescue North Pole researchers from a drifting ice floe north of Greenland failed to cut its way through to them, leaving the scientists stranded, Tass reported Thursday.
Last October the Soviet icebreaker Vladimir Arseniev smashed its way through the frozen waters off Point Barrow to help free two California gray whales trapped in the ice.
Finally, the icebreaker appeared out of the snowy squall line ahead.
Moments later, the whales appeared about 25 feet away in open water left by the icebreaker.
Canadian officials said it will be substantially larger than two of the largest icebreakers in service, the Soviet Union's Lenin icebreaker and the U.S. Polar Sea.

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