ice-free

基本解释

The researchers predict that if current conditions persist, the mountain could be ice-free as early as 2022.
研究人员预测如果当前的情况持续下去，该山峰的冰雪将最早于2022年消失殆尽。
Publicity for the latest edition of the atlas, launched last week, said warming had turned 15% of Greenland's former ice-covered land "green and ice-free".
上周泰晤士报发起了地图册最新版本的宣传，并说，气候变暖已把原格陵兰岛15％覆盖冰的土地变成了“绿色和无冰”之地。
The Arctic Ocean, which experienced record melting last year, could be ice-free in the summer as soon as 2013, decades ahead of what the earlier models told us.
北极地区去年创纪录的融化速度警告我们，按照现有状况推断，到2013年夏天最后一块冰就会消失。

We were there in early March, and the harbor was ice-free, which is also very unusual for that region.
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During the ice-free seasons on the Great Lakes, ships competed with railroads, so Chicago had the cheapest rates to the East.
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In fact, the Arctic Ocean may have been virtually ice-free in September.
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