- snow; snow cover; snow mantle
- to snap sth off; to break
- to rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking
- universal; general; widespread; common
- (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky); (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
- 冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover
- thick smoke
- to get dark; dusk
- airborne sand and dust
- light ray; CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]; light; illumination; lighting (for a photograph)
- to shine on; to light up; to irradiate
- sight; vision; visual
- misconception; illusion; misperception
- to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy; steady and serious character
- boots
- to squat down; to crouch
- ice crystals
- to condense; to solidify; to coagulate; clot (of blood)
- carbon (chemistry)
- speck; particle
- nose; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- popularization of science (abbr. for 科學普及|科学普及[ke1 xue2 pu3 ji2]); (attributive) popular science; (coll.) to explain in layperson's terms
- Siberia
- oil field
- mixture; composite
- sulfuric acid H2SO4; sulfate
- strong (taste, flavor, smell)
- hard labor (in penal code); coolie
- to smell; to sniff sth out; to perceive by smelling
- to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through
- to ignite; to set on fire; aflame
- ice field
- to eradicate; to extinguish
- conflagration; large fire; CL:場|场[chang2]
- blaze; flame
- defenders