- 1水車蓄水池。成語 as still as a millpond 指水面平得像沒有風。
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.
core核心畫面
組成mill + pond.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
millpondnoun
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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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。