stalactite

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Water that falls onto the ground below from the growing stalactite can form stalagmites.
正在生長的鍾乳石上的水，落到地麪上後可以形成“石筍”。
One recent morning, a different note—fainter than the root note, but easily discernible—pealed distinctly in the middle of my right ear, a lone stalactite hanging in a cave.
最近一個早上，我聽到了一個不同的調——比根音要弱一點，可還是容易辨別——在我的右耳裡鳴著，像一個洞穴裡的鍾乳石一樣貯在那兒。
Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.
北極以南800英裡，鍾乳石—像層雲—被每小時90英裡的大風攪動著，瘀紫色的黎明陽光描繪了英格爾場海灣上的天啓肖像。

a column of rock that hangs from the roof of a cave and is formed over a very long period of time by drops of water containing lime falling from the roof

A stalactite is a long piece of rock which hangs down from the roof of a cave. Stalactites are formed by the slow dropping of water containing the mineral lime.