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shallow 音標拼音: [ʃ'ælo] n. 水淺的地方,淺灘
a. 淺的,膚淺的
vt.
vi. (使)變淺 水淺的地方,淺灘淺的,膚淺的(使)變淺 shallow淺[ 薄 ]的 shallow淺 shallow adj 1: 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" [ ant: { deep}] 2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; " shallow breathing"; " a night of shallow fretful sleep"; " in a shallow trance" [ ant: { deep}] 3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; " shallow people"; " his arguments seemed shallow and tedious" n 1: a stretch of shallow water [ synonym: { shoal}, { shallow}] v 1: make shallow; " The silt shallowed the canal" [ synonym: { shallow}, { shoal}] 2: become shallow; " the lake shallowed over time" [ synonym: { shallow}, { shoal}] Shallow \ Shal" low\, n. 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. [ 1913 Webster] A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) The rudd. [ Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster]
Shallow \ Shal" low\, v. t. To make shallow. -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster]
Shallow \ Shal" low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water. [ 1913 Webster]
Shallow \ Shal" low\, a. [ Compar. { Shallower}; superl. { Shallowest}.] [ OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[= a] lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. { Shelve} to slope, { Shoal} shallow.] 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. " Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not deep in tone. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. [ 1913 Webster] The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Rudd \ Rudd\, n. [ See { Rud}, n.] ( Zool.) A fresh- water European fish of the Carp family ({ Leuciscus erythrophthalmus}). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also { redeye}, { roud}, { finscale}, and { shallow}. A blue variety is called { azurine}, or { blue roach}. [ 1913 Webster] 100 Moby Thesaurus words for " shallow": airy, amateur, amateurish, ankle- deep, asinine, bank, bar, birdbrained, birdwitted, catchpenny, coral reef, cursory, dabbling, depthless, dilettante, dilettantish, empty, epidermal, fatuous, featherbrained, few, fill in, fill up, flat, flighty, flimsy, fluffy, foolish, footling, ford, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, half- assed, half- baked, half- cocked, idle, immature, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, jejune, knee- deep, light, little, low, meager, miniature, negligible, no great shakes, not deep, nugacious, nugatory, on the surface, otiose, petty, picayune, picayunish, reef, sandbank, sandbar, sciolistic, shallow- headed, shallow- minded, shallow- pated, shallow- rooted, shallow- witted, shallows, shelf, shoal, shoal water, shoals, short, silly, silt up, skin- deep, slender, slight, small, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, surface, thin, tidal flats, tiny, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, unprofound, vacuous, vain, vapid, volatile, wetlands, windy
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