【英语时差8,16】雪会说话吗？（下）

Snowflakes are small ice crystals. Snowflakes near their melting temperature can, through hand pressure, be made to fuse into a snowball by a process of melting and re-freezing. The snow yields to pressure “gently and progressively” and doesn’t make sound. On the other hand, if the snow is very cold, far below its melting temperature, even the pressure of a boot heel or a wagon¹ wheel won’t melt it. The snow is powdery and won’t form snowballs. Instead, pressure just makes the ice crystals crush and slip over each other as dry particles. That “abrupt and jerky” motion of the dry ice crystals causes vibration² and sound, according to Humphreys’ book. So W.J. Humphreys claimed that snow creaks when the weather is very cold, but not when the weather is only moderately cold. Does that claim jibe³ with your experience?

 

1 wagon   

n.四轮马车，手推车，面包车；无盖运货列车

参考例句：

• We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
• The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。

2 vibration   

n.颤动，振动；摆动

参考例句：

• There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震动大得使人无法书写。
• The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震动把我惊醒了。

3 jibe   

v.嘲笑，与...一致，使转向；n.嘲笑，嘲弄

参考例句：

• Perhaps I should withdraw my jibe about hot air.或许我应当收回对热火朝天的嘲笑。
• What he says does not jibe with what others say.他所说的与其他人说的不一致。