the changing wind patterns have driven temperatures up by nearly three degrees Centigrade over the last 50 years.海風的變化使南極半島的氣溫上升了近三攝氏度

drive up:抬高

Sunny days are driving up the temperature.

陽光明媚的日子使氣溫上升。

Ten times the average rate of the rest of the planet.這是地球其他地區平均水平的十倍

the rest of:其余的

The slide cut off the valley from the rest of the world.

山崩切斷了這個山谷與外界的聯系。

Soon I dropped behind the rest of the class.

不久我就落在班上其他同志后面了。

Most of South Georgia's glaciers have shrunk since Shackleton's time自沙克爾頓的時代后大多數南喬治亞冰川已經消逝了

shrink:收縮, 退縮, 萎縮(shrunk是過去完成時）

He can not shrink back from danger.

他不會從危險中退縮出來。

Don't shrink from the thought of obstacle.

不要一想到困難就退縮。