死水 meaning in Chinese
backwater; stagnant water; unfree water; dead water
◇死水池 dub; 死水区 slough; 死水潭 [澳大利亚] stagnum; 死水洼地 billabong
Examples
- There were stagnant ponds in the streets, here and there .
街上到处都有死水潭。 - Stagnant water breeds mosquitoes .
死水滋生蚊虫。 - But here i'm alone, in a stale pool .
我在这里却是孤零零的一个人，象是掉在一个死水坑里。 - Every here and there, for a few hundred yards, the path lay submerged below the stagnant waters of the fen .
每隔一段，就有几百码路面淹在沼泽的死水里。 - Round we went with the tide, until we got well under the lee of the point, when suddenly the speed slackened, we ceased to make way, and finally appeared to be in dead water .
我们随波逐流，四处飘荡。到了海岬下面的避风处，速度突然减低，船慢慢停了下来。最后就好象走进了一道死水湾似的。