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 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]