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词汇 pond life
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Definition of pond life in English:

pond life

noun
mass noun
  • 1The animals, especially the invertebrates, that live in ponds or stagnant water.

    池生动物(尤指池生无脊椎动物)

    pupils can discover aspects of pond life for themselves
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Monitor all pond life carefully for diseases and parasites.
    • Water gardens are ponds having water falls, pond plants and pond life like exotic fishes.
    • Planted at the bottom of the pond, they produce fronds that add oxygen and encourage other beneficial pond life.
    • The public's help is needed to put plants in the pond which will keep the water healthy for wildlife and create new habitats for pond life.
    • It isn't a big pond, but it has fair number of fish and other pond life living in it.
  • 2British informal A contemptible or worthless person or group of people.

    gangs of foul-mouthed pond life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He responded by labelling the paper as 'the methane gas rising from the pond life of Irish journalism'.
    • These 'pond life' should apparently be alternately sterilized, publicly flogged, or wiped off the face of the earth altogether.
    • Typically, they'd have nothing to do with spammers, the 'pond life' of the Internet.
    • They are the lowest form of political pond life and we do not need them.
    • They are highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond life nevertheless.
    • We should exterminate 'em with all the other pond life.
    • But nowadays the people who throng it are now largely a sort of traveling pond life.
    • Are you pond life or a platinum partner?
    • I'm all for looking for the best in people, but I think you can safely define someone as pond life when they can't even be bothered to smoke properly.
    • Anyway, I hate literary critics - pond life the lot of 'em.
    • We work hard all year to try and give our kids a decent Christmas and this pond life has to try and spoil things for others.
    • It would be nice to see Yorkshire "ladies" kicking him into the North Sea where pond life like him belong.
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