The steady shrinkage of polar ice-caps , as a result of global warming , is making previously inaccessible deposits much easier to get at-and helping to open some formerly icebound shipping lanes .
In may of 1983 they spent a few cold days at a series of little icebound , no-name high lakes , then worked across into the hail strew river drainage .
1983年5月,他们在几处结冰的高山湖泊边过了几天冷日子。接着便打算穿过黑耳斯图河。
L want to be promoted out of this icebound backwater .
我想离开这到处是雪的地方。
There is only one place in the world where it is possible to stay on an icebound ship now .
世界上只有一个地方可能去冰封的船上。
If you visit lake baikal , remember that winters here are frigid and icebound , with continental cold snaps bringing temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees fahrenheit and producing a layer of surface ice as thick as two meters .