Beside us there was a long, reedy pool, constricted in the centre where the main carriage drive passed over a stone bridge, but swelling into small lakes on either side.

在我们旁边有一个长长的、长满芦苇的水池， 在主要马车车道经过一座石桥的中央收缩， 但在两边膨胀成小湖。