冰封
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English
- to freeze over
- to ice over
- icebound
- to shelve (a proposal etc)
- to freeze over; to ice up; to be covered in ice
粵語 — Cantonese
- 表面或者周圍結晒冰;俾冰覆蓋住
Examples
冰封三尺,非一日之寒
The outcome is the result of a series of events over a long period of time, rather than a single event. (Literal meaning: A three-foot-thick slab of ice is not the result of the coldness in a single day.)
呢個港口每年冬天都會冰封三個月。
This harbour freezes over for three months every winter.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk