shallow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃæləʊ/    美 /ˈʃæloʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
    — The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
  2. A fish, the rudd.
  3. A costermonger's barrow. historical
    — You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
动词 v.
  1. To make or become less deep. ambitransitive
    — The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
形容词 adj.
  1. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
    — This crater is relatively shallow.
  2. Extending not far downward.
    — The water is shallow here.
  3. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
    — It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
  4. Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
    — The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
  5. Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
    — shallow learning
  6. Not deep in tone. obsolete
    — the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
  7. Not far forward, close to the net.
    — Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
  8. Not steep; close to horizontal.
    — a shallow climb

词形变化

shallower comparative more shallow comparative shallowest superlative most shallow superlative shallows plural shallows present,singular,third-person shallowing participle,present shallowed participle,past shallowed past

词汇关系

近义词
shallow superficial
反义词
deep
上位词
short
下位词
ankle-deep knee-deep skin-deep
衍生词
broad and shallow given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow nonshallow Shallowater Shallow Bay shallow brooks are noisy shallow copy shallow-copy shallow cove shallow embedding shallow end shallow fellow shallow-fried shallow-fry shallow-hearted shallowhearted shallowish shallowly shallowness shallowpate shallow-waisted Shallow Water shallow-witted unshallow
相关词
sandbank sandbar shoal

词源

词源 1
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
词源 2
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
词源 3
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
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