glacier

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: A large area of thick ice on a mountain that stays frozen throughout the year.

• We skied across the glacier.
• Snow covered the glacier even in July.
• The guide warned us about cracks in the glacier.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: mountain glacier, ski a glacier, melting glacier, retreating glacier

kaplumbağa

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: Something that moves or changes extremely slowly.

• The queue was a glacier.
• Our paperwork moved through a glacier of bureaucracy.
• By noon, the traffic had become a glacier.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: a bureaucratic glacier, glacier of traffic