When the sun sank low above the treetops and no more drops fell from the tips of the icicles they began to watch eagerly for Pa.
太阳下沉到树梢上，冰柱上的水也不再往下滴，她们开始急切地盼望着爸爸的归来。All that day the sun shone, the snow melted, and little streams of water ran from the icicles , which all the time grew thinner.
整整一天，阳光灿烂。雪融化了。小水流不停地从冰柱上流下，冰柱越变越小。this passionless girl was like an icicle in the sunshine-Margaret Deland.
这个冷淡的姑娘就像是在阳光下的冰柱——马格丽特·迪兰。BBC film crews recorded the brinicle for the first time ever as it sunk to the bottom of the sea in Antarctica.
随着它沉入南极海洋的底部，BBC的节目摄影组有史以来第一次拍到这种冰柱。Every surface has been silvered , with giant icicles to hang from the beams, and a giant Christmas Tree sits at the head of the space.
所有的器具都镀了银，房梁上吊着粗大的冰柱，还立着一棵无比高大的圣诞树。The next drop fall from the same spot and gradually form a stone "icicle, " called a stalactite, which hangs from the cave's ceiling.
另一滴水从同一地方滴下，渐渐地形成一个石头“冰柱”，叫做钟乳石，悬挂在洞穴顶上。Pale pink icicles hung from her fingertips, ten long knives of frozen blood.
苍白泛粉的冰柱悬挂在她的指尖，十支冰冻的鲜血结成的长刀。there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches.
这儿有一丛荆棘，既没有一起叶子，也没有一朵花。这时正是严寒的冬天，那些小枝上只挂着冰柱。Visitors have removed artifacts, and the hull is festooned with rusticles: icicle-shaped accretions of iron oxide, otherwise known as rust.
工艺品被移走后，发现船体上结满了一团团的锈：冰柱般的铁氧化物，不像是已知的铁锈。