ice floe

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When earth begins again I would like to slide down a chute of stars into an icy untamed sea and swim through the cold to the ice floe where there will be others like me, not monsters, homed.
當(dāng)?shù)厍蛑匦麻_始的時候，我情愿滑下星星瀑布，進(jìn)入一個冰雪覆蓋、桀驁不馴的海洋，游過寒冷，登上冰川，那將成為像我一樣的其它物種（不是怪物）居住的地方。
You see, when I lived far away, you knew I was there, and I kept something for you, even though you had never seen a polar bear or an ice floe. Even though you are not adapted to my conditions.
你瞧，當(dāng)我生活在遠(yuǎn)方時，你卻知道我在那里，而且知道我為你保存了某些東西，即使你從未見過北極熊或冰川，即使你適應(yīng)不了我的環(huán)境。
At one point an ice floe the team's tent was moored on broke apart, although no one was injured.
有一次，隊(duì)伍帳篷所在的浮冰破裂，所幸無人受傷。

Then, when snow or rain wash them onto an ice floe, they darken its surface and thus cause it to melt faster.
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Last year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science got into a bit of a pinch when its flagship magazine, Science, was caught in the photoshop with a faked image of a lone polar bear on a tiny ice floe.
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What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.
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