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You can picture a small body of still fresh water — small enough that you can see all the way around it from where you stand. It might be a natural dip in a field that fills with rain, or one dug on purpose in a garden or a park, with fish and lily pads. Smaller than a lake, and usually not going anywhere: the water sits.
可以想成一小片不流動的淡水，小到你站在一邊就能把整圈看完。它可能是田裡一個自然的凹地積了雨水，也可能是人在花園、公園…更多收起
可以想成一小片不流動的淡水，小到你站在一邊就能把整圈看完。它可能是田裡一個自然的凹地積了雨水，也可能是人在花園、公園裡特地挖出來的，養魚、浮著睡蓮。比湖小很多，而且水通常就停在那裡，不往哪裡去。原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pondname
- 1
A surname.
- "How do you know?" asked Mr Pond rather snappishly and in unusual irritation.
- Hi, I’m Max Pond. I’m an active mormon, or member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
pondnoun詞源 1/pɒnd/
- 1
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
- 2
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
pondname詞源 1/pɒnd/
- 1
informalChiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
- I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.
- I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.
pondverb詞源 1/pɒnd/
- 1
To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
- The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
- 2
To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
- 3
To form a pond; to pool.
pondverb詞源 2/pɒnd/
- 1
obsoleteTo ponder.
- Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。