ice/aɪs/

n

1. U 冰；冰块

2. C 主英冰制食品；冰淇淋

• Don't eat so many ices. 不要吃那么多冰淇淋。

3. U 美旧 钻石

词组break the ice (为难办的事)开个头；打破沉默，使气氛活跃

• As soon as the ice was broken, the meeting livened up. 最初的沉默一经打破，会场就活跃起来。

cut no ice 口 不起作用；没有影响

• His father's position cuts no ice with me. 他父亲的职位在我看来没有什么了不起。

be (skating) on thin ice 喻 如履薄冰，处于危险(或困难)境地 keep(或 put) sth. on ice 延迟，暂搁

• They've kept our proposal on ice for a long time. 他们已经把我们的建议搁置了很久。