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pond

/pond/US // pɒnd //UK // (pɒnd) //

池塘,池塘边,塘,池塘边的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
    • : the pond, Informal. the Atlantic Ocean: American companies are finding business is different on the other side of the pond.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to collect into a pond or large puddle: to prevent rainwater from ponding on the roof.

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Examples

  • There, settling ponds, bacteria, chemicals and machines make the wastes safe enough to go back into the environment.

  • Ground-penetrating radar now has revealed that these were no cattle ponds.

  • If GWAS are like fishing for a rare species in several large oceans, then the authors’ point is to focus on ponds—distributed across the world—which are small, but packed with those rare species.

  • Some are large ponds, and others are major lakes more than 270 feet deep.

  • The fish were supposed to help control the growth of algae in ponds on fish farms.

  • Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?

  • “I jumped over a few cars, almost turned it upside down in a pond and came out on top of all four tires,” she wrote in an email.

  • Stampy, the biggest YouTube star this side of the pond, is also known as 23-year-old Joseph Garrett from Portsmouth.

  • Then, a sharp-eyed woman pointed out a ladder leaning against a tree on the side of the pond.

  • This was not the Impossible—the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House—this was a walk above the LongHouse pond.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.

  • On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.

  • Under cover of this they crawled towards a large pond on which ducks were resting but by no means asleep.

  • In the autumn it occurs both in the Braye Pond and on the coast in the more sheltered parts.