| 单词 | the great pond |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe great pond 2. Chiefly humorous. The sea, the ocean, esp. the North Atlantic Ocean. Usually with the, frequently as the big pond or the great pond. Cf. also herring-pond n., millpond n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] sea-floodc893 brimc937 streamc950 foamOE mereOE seaOE sea of (the) oceanc1300 brookc1400 float1477 strand1513 breec1540 burnc1540 broth1558 Thetisie1600 fishpond1604 brine1605 pond1612 Thetisc1620 brack1627 herring-pond1686 tide1791 black water1816 lave1825 briny1831 salt water1839 blue1861 swan's bath1865 puddle1869 ditch1922 oggin1945 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Atlantic Ocean Atlantica1387 Western Ocean1576 pond1612 Great Lake1684 mid-Atlantic1804 millpond1813 Middle Atlantic1826 puddle1869 whale-poola1876 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. i. 20 Wee goe downe to the great deepe, the wombe of moisture, the well of fountaines, the great pond of the world. 1642 Times Alterations 1/4 It seemes that you have taken flight over the great Pond, pray what newes in England? 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 374 Through this Womb of moisture the great pond of the World (as Bishop Hall terms the Ocean). 1780 Royal Gaz. (N.Y.) 22 Jan. Then Jack was sent across the Pond To take her in the rear, Sir. 1832 J. L. Motley Let. 24 May in Corr. (1889) I. ii. 11 I should have been very sorry to have crossed the Atlantic (or the pond, as the sailors call it) without a single storm. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xviii He is..the best live one that ever cut dirt this side of the big pond. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) x. 251 It is but a step from the glassy surface of the Herring Ponds to the big Atlantic Pond where the waves never cease to break. 1902 Outing June 345/1 [They] have hardly sustained their reputation on either side of the big pond. 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xiii. 259 A good many of us go abroad nowadays—to Paris and London, anyway... We call it ‘jumping the Big Pond’. 1944 Q. Reynolds Curtain Rises i. 12 From Natal, you take the big jump across the pond. 2003 Eastern Eye 14 Feb. 1/1 He won't be crossing the pond to the US. < as lemmas |
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