stalactite

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Water that falls onto the ground below from the growing stalactite can form stalagmites.
正在生长的钟乳石上的水，落到地面上后可以形成“石笋”。
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.
最近一个早上，我听到了一个不同的调——比根音要弱一点，可还是容易辨别——在我的右耳里鸣着，像一个洞穴里的钟乳石一样贮在那儿。
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.
北极以南800英里，钟乳石—像层云—被每小时90英里的大风搅动着，瘀紫色的黎明阳光描绘了英格尔场海湾上的天启肖像。

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.