This is a piece of ice, about 20,000 years old, from Antarctica.

这是一块冰，大约有 2 万年的历史，来自南极洲。

He's part of a team working to find the oldest ice on Earth.

他是寻找地球上最古老冰团队的一员。

Even the oldest ice core that has been storing information about Earth's climate for 1.5 million years.

甚至连储存著地球 150 万年气候资讯的最古老冰芯也不能幸免。

Calving is the answer here and a nice shelf in Antarctica just dropped a tremendous chip off the old ice block.

答案是冰解，在南极洲，一块巨大碎片从一座美丽的冰架上掉了下来。

I never play tennis now.' Well, 'Jane said.'I like your tennis racket more than these old ice skates.OK!

我现在从不打网球了。好吧，”简说。“比起这些旧溜冰鞋，我更喜欢你的网球拍。好吧！

He joined researchers from 15 universities and COLDEX to find the oldest ice on the planet and study the prehistoric dust particles trapped inside.

他与来自 15 所大学和 COLDEX 的研究人员一起寻找地球上最古老的冰，并研究其中捕获的史前尘埃颗粒。

Our oldest ice sample that we've collected now is greater than 4 million years old and this is the oldest ice that's ever been collected on the planet.

我们现在收集的最古老的冰样本超过400万年，这是地球上迄今为止收集到的最古老的冰。

Well we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.

M：嗯，我们被引导相信我们会遇到很大一部分这种更老、更厚、技术上多年存在的冰， 这些冰已经存在了几年， 而且越来越厚。