a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming
A swimming hole is a place in a river, stream, creek, spring, or similar natural body of water, which is large enough and deep enough for a person to swim in. Common usage usually refers to fresh, moving water and thus not to oceans or lakes.
例句与用法
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Some years ago on a hot summer day in south florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house 几年前的一个炎炎夏日,在美国佛罗里达州南部,有个小男孩为贪图凉快,决定去自家房子后面一个形成已久的深水潭中游泳。
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The rumour up here at summer camp is that kid - eating monster lives at the bottom of the swimming hole . . . . . and all the other kids dared me to swim across it at night 在夏天,在这里,传闻提高露营有个游泳洞的底部住著吃小孩的怪物. . .而所有的小孩刺激我在晚上游过它!
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A shack on the main road , the anlong veng tourism office , lists the sites : faded photographs of weed - filled plots labeled as the former homes and swimming holes of khmer rouge leaders 安隆汶游客中心虽然只是大马路上的一个草棚,但却详细列出各个重要地点,陈列已经褪色的相片,照出好些杂草蔓生的荒地,下面的标示说明这是各个赤柬领袖过去的住所或是他们游泳的地点。