glacial

• adj.氷のような; 氷のように冷たい; 氷河期

ラテン語のglacies（氷）が語源で、語源的にはcold（冷たい）と同じである。

glacial (adj.)

1650s, "cold, icy," from French glacial or directly from Latin glacialis "icy, frozen, full of ice," from glacies "ice," probably from a suffixed form of PIE root *gel- (2) "cold, to freeze" (cognates: Latin gelu "frost;" see cold (adj.)). Geological sense "pertaining to glaciers" apparently was coined in 1846 by British naturalist Edward Forbes (1815-1854). Hence figurative sense "at an extremely slow rate," as of the advance of glaciers. Related: Glacially.

1. The Duchess 's glare was glacial .

公爵夫人は冷ややかに見ていた。

2.Her glacial beauty is magnetic.

彼女の冷たい美しさに魅了された。

3.Change occurs at a glacial pace.

変化は極めて緩やかである。

4.Her expression was glacial .

彼女は無愛想な表情をしていた。

5.Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.

旧カンブリア紀の最後の1億年で、2つの主要な氷河期が2つの地域に影響を与えた。