pond
noun /pɒnd/
/pɑːnd/
Idioms - enlarge imagea small area of still water, especially one that is artificial
池塘；水池（尤指人工的） - a fish pond
养鱼池
Topics Geographyc1, Gardensc1- She swam across the pond.
她游到池塘的对岸去了。 - The Carters had a pond in their back yard.
卡特家后院里有个池塘。 - The pond is drained every year.
池塘的水每年都要排干。 - The ponds are fully stocked with rainbow trout.
池塘里放养了大量虹鳟鱼。 - There are goldfish in the pond.
池塘里有金鱼。 - There were some ducks swimming on the pond.
池塘里有几只鸭子在游动。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- large
- little
- …
- build
- construct
- dig
- …
- life
- water
- across a/the pond
- in a/the pond
- into a/the pond
- …
- the bottom, edge, middle, surface, etc. of a pond
- a fish pond
- (informal, humorous) the Atlantic Ocean
在大西洋彼岸 - He's relatively unknown on this side of the pond.
他在大西洋这一侧不是那么出名。 - across the pond Critics across the pond have been queuing up to heap praise on the movie.
池塘那边的评论家们一直在排队对这部电影大加赞扬。
- He's relatively unknown on this side of the pond.
词源Middle English: alteration of pound ‘a place where stray animals are kept’; commonly used in dialect in the same sense.
Idioms
a big fish (in a small pond)
- an important person (in a small community)
（小圈子里的）大人物