Shallow
['ʃæləʊ] or ['ʃælo]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become shallow; 'the lake shallowed over time'.
(verb.) make shallow; 'The silt shallowed the canal'.
(adj.) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; 'shallow water'; 'a shallow dish'; 'a shallow cut'; 'a shallow closet'; 'established a shallow beachhead'; 'hit the ball to shallow left field' .
(adj.) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; 'shallow breathing'; 'a night of shallow fretful sleep'; 'in a shallow trance' .
(adj.) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; 'shallow people'; 'his arguments seemed shallow and tedious' .
乔迪校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
(superl.) Not deep in tone.
(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make shallow.
(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.
海因里希錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Shoal, not deep.[2]. Superficial, unintelligent, simple, ignorant, not profound.[3]. Flimsy, trivial, frivolous, trifling, foolish, puerile, trashy.
n. Shoal, flat, shelf, bank.
尤金伲亚整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound
ANT:Deep, profound
校對:卢瑟
解釋/意思:
n. a sandbank: a place over which the water is not deep: a shoal.—adj. not deep: not profound: not wise: trifling.—v.t. to make shallow.—v.i. to grow shallow.—adjs. Shall′ow-brained -pā′ted weak in intellect; Shall′ow-heart′ed not capable of deep feelings.—adv. Shall′owly (Shak.) simply foolishly.—n. Shall′owness.
整理:罗威娜
例句/造句/用法:
- You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- There were trees along both sides of the road and through the right line of trees I saw the river, the water clear, fast and shallow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was like a shallow pot lying among the stone and snow of the upper world. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- On the farther bank from me the trees rose thickly again, and shut out the view, and cast their black shadows on the sluggish, shallow water. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Two other piers, at a distance, on each side, of 460 feet, were built without much difficulty in shallower water, and between these and the masonry on each side was a distance of 230 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- For he is, by heaven, the most self-satisfied, and the shallowest, and the most coxcombical and utterly brainless ass! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Between the deepest and shallowest it appears to be somewhat more than one fifth. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
編輯:史蒂夫