| 单词 | goldfish pond |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoldfish pond General attributive, as goldfish pond, goldfish tank, etc. ΚΠ 1755 H. Walpole Let. 17 July in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 238 After dinner we dragged a gold-fish pond for my Lady F— and Lord S. 1820 Morning Post 5 May (advt.) Clarke's seed and gold fish warehouse. 1848 Reynolds's Misc. 12 Feb. 222/2 She..filled her gold-fish globes with leeches, the gyrations and tortuous evolutions of which she watched by the hour. 1871 H. T. Williams Window Gardening (1876) 275 The flower basket, with goldfish basin, is very cheerful to look at when standing in a bay window. 1908 H. E. Haskell O-Heart-San iv. 26 The goldfish pond, where the fat, red fish came to the surface of the water begging silently for lard cakes. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes i. 4 As early as 1889 a goldfish farm had been established in Maryland, and long before the end of the century..books on goldfish-culture were enjoying good sales. 1994 Face Aug. 25 A five-gallon goldfish tank. 2003 M. E. Ostrow Goldfish (new ed.) 86/2 Some goldfish varieties have long dorsal fins that..interfere with swimming and rolling stability. < as lemmas |
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