The frozen seas of the arctic and Antarctic each had their surveys, too.(考察范圍還包括了北冰洋和南極洲的冰凍海洋。)

Scientists agree that the key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is as much as 7000 feet thick.(科學家們一致認為，這一情境中的關鍵推手是南極西部的冰層，這是一塊跟巴西（面積）差不多大小的冰原，厚達7000英尺。)

South Korea opened its second Antarctic research base in 2014, describing it as a way to test robots developed by Korean researchers for use in extreme conditions.(2014年，韓國開設了第二個南極研究基地，稱之為一種對韓國研究人員開發的機器人在極端條件下使用的測試途徑。)

Scott of the Antarctic was a national hero of mythic proportions.(南極探險家斯科特是位赫赫有名的民族英雄。)

A leopard seal plunges through Antarctic waters.(一只南極海豹跳入南極水中。)

The Antarctic is not wholly covered in snow and ice.(南極并不是全部被冰雪覆蓋。)

Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.(近代的探險隊已經從綠色冰山和冰核中帶回了一些冰塊樣本，這些樣本呈垂直的圓柱狀，是沿著南極洲大陸的冰川冰架從極深的位置中取出的。)

Because of the extreme cold, the Antarctic is a uniquely fragile environment.(由于極端寒冷，南極州的生態環境尤其脆弱。)

Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of Chinas Antarctic operations since the 1980s.(中國微生物學家余勇向我們展示了這座寬敞的建筑，里面的課桌空空如也。他在一張配有插圖的時間軸上詳細描述了中國南極探險活動自上世紀80年代以來的快速增長。)

The report also highlights incidents of fishing boats being involved in groundings, oil spills and accidents, which posed a serious threat to the Antarctic ecosystem.(這份報告還強調了漁船擱淺、石油泄漏和意外事件，這些事件對南極生態系統構成了嚴重威脅。)