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    A millpond is a small, still pool built to hold water for a watermill. The water sits there, then is let out to turn the . Because the surface is so calm, English has a picture-phrase: “as still as a millpond” means a lake or the sea with almost no . You will meet the word more in the countryside and in stories than in a city. Though actually, it is not just any pond beside a mill — the point is that it stores the water the mill needs.

    水車蓄水池。成語 as still as a millpond 指水面平得像沒有風。

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組成mill + pond.

同家族的字

  • millthe mill this pond is built to feed
  • pondthe still pool of water
  • millwheelthe wheel the stored water is meant to turn
  • watermillthe whole mill that runs on that water

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    A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.

    • When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。