Maybe they didn't tread out a new record, but the dual purpose was to have fun and getting that many riders out in subfreezing temperatures was unsnowmobelievable.

也他们没有创造新的记录，但是，另一个目的是为了好玩，人在零下的温度下，是不可思议的。

Meteorologists say roughly 70 percent of the U.S. population, around 240 million people woke up to subfreezing temperatures on Wednesday morning.

气学家说，美国70％的人口，将近2.4亿人在周三早晨的低温中醒来。

Mother nature commonly serves these up in the Arctic but it takes several days of subfreezing temperatures for them to form in the lower 48 states.

大自然母亲通常在北极提供这些食物，但在美国本土的48个州，它们需要几天低于冰点的温度才能形成。

It had just taken longer than the anticipated 24 to 48 hours for salty seawater to gnaw through the wire, probably because chemistry happens at a slower pace in subfreezing Arctic seawater.

可能因为在冰点以下的北极海水里，化学反应发生的速度比较慢，咸水蚀穿这条线的时间比预期的24到48小时还要久。