Shoal
[ʃəʊl] or [ʃol]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a stretch of shallow water.
(noun.) a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide.
埃利奥特錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
錄入:撒迦利亚
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Crowd, throng, multitude, swarm, horde, gang.[2]. Shallow, sand-bank.
v. n. Grow shallow.
a. Shallow.
詹妮整理
解釋/意思:
n. a great multitude of fishes swimming together.—v.i. to crowd.—adv. Shoal′wise in shoals.
n. a shallow: a place where the water of a river sea or lake is not deep: a sandbank.—adj. shallow.—v.i. to grow shallow: to come upon shallows.—ns. Shoal′er a coasting vessel; Shoal′iness; Shoal′ing filling up with shoals; Shoal′-mark a mark set up to indicate shoal-water; Shoal′ness shallowness.—adj. Shoal′y full of shoals or shallows: not deep.
編輯:纽曼
例句/造句/用法:
- I HAVE lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A Shoal of Barnacles Mr Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She marked the shoal for the rest of the fleet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They all dropped into the water, and were swimming together like a shoal of seals. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I have got clear of some shoals, and have more sea-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Shoals of our straggling youth have been swept into the ocean by an unexpected breeze! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- As we have seen, Hood succeeded in crossing the Tennessee River between Muscle Shoals and the lower shoals at the end of October, 1864. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:卢瑟