The weather is now stormy and brooding, and the placid waters of the fountain have become choppy and angry.

原本平静的喷泉水变得汹涌起来。

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Waves lapping on the beach, the placid waters of an azure lagoon, and the sparkling Indian Ocean extending towards the horizon.

海浪拍打在沙滩上，蔚蓝的泻湖平静的水域，波光粼粼的印度洋延伸向地平线。

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Along the lake's northern reaches, near the city of Wuxi, placid waters and misty hills captured the imagination of Chinese for hundreds of years.

沿湖的北岸靠近无锡，平静的水面和烟雾笼罩的山是几百年来中国人的想像中的美好画面。

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Its placid waters have integrated the region for at least a millennium.

CNN: VIEWPOINT

After dark, I lost hours counting falling stars beneath the dotted canopy of the Milky Way, its sparkling dome mirrored in the placid waters below.

BBC: Safari by water in southern Africa

Stanford, like newspapers and music companies and much of traditional media a little more than a decade ago, is sailing in seemingly placid waters.

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