shal·low /ˈʃæ(ˌ)lo/
水淺的地方,淺灘(a.)淺的,膚淺的(vt.)(vi.)(使)變淺
shal·low /ˈʃæl(ˌ)o, ə(w)/ 形容詞
淺的
shallow
淺[ 薄 ]的
shallow
淺
Shal·low a. [Compar. Shallower superl. Shallowest.]
1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. “Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.”
2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon.
3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.
Shal·low, n.
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
2. Zool. The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
Shal·low, v. t. To make shallow.
Shal·low, v. i. To become shallow, as water.
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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 : a stretch of shallow water [syn: shoal]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: shoal]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: shoal]