There were not many upon the canal that day, between Leyden and Haarlem. However, as the boys neared Amsterdam, they found themselves once more in the midst of a moving throng. The big ysbreeker *{Icebreaker. A heavy machine armed with iron spikes for breaking the ice as it is dragged along. Some of the small ones are worked by men, but the large ones are drawn by horses, sixty or seventy of which are sometimes attached to one ysbreeker.} had been at work for the first time that season, but there was any amount of skating ground left yet.英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
On a frozen river near a certain Russian town, a gang of seven carpenters were hastily repairing an icebreaker which the townsfolk had stripped for firewood.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
By this time there remained only two more hours for work, and the arch of the icebreaker had been wholly sheathed in butter-tinted scantlings, and nothing required to be added to it save the great iron braces. Unfortunately, Boev and Saniavin, the men who had been engaged upon the task of cutting out the sockets for the braces, had worked so amiss, and run their lines so straight, that, when it came to the point, the arms of the braces refused to sink properly into the wood.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
"Hunger cannot be considered where necessity impels. By the way, what use are our damned icebreakers? For the protection of barges and such? Why, the ice hasn't the sense to care. It just goes sliding over a barge, and farewell is the word to THAT bit of property!英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
"The truth is that the icebreaker ought to have been taken in hand sooner."英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
We need the icebreaker now. We need Grigor Andolov.美剧 · 《Billions》
I would be willing to allow the Chinese sailors that are stationed on King George Island to board our icebreaker.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Really? Are you willing to draw a mustache on your finger As a conversational icebreaker?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》