shallows

英 [ˈʃæləʊz]

美 [ˈʃæloʊz]

n.  (河海的)浅水处，浅滩

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牛津词典

noun

• （河海的）浅水处，浅滩
  a shallow place in a river or the sea

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 浅水处;浅滩
  The shallowsare the shallow part of an area of water.
  1. At dusk more fish come into the shallows.
     黄昏时分，更多的鱼游到了浅水区。

双语例句

• The freezer may look bare but an arctic wolf knows a tasty fish might be within reach in the shallows off Canada's Ellesmere Island.
  在加拿大的艾利斯摩尔岛，一只北极狼知道在这种天气下美味的鱼总躲在冰层之下。
• Growing ice shelves would make the shallows uninhabitable.
  生长的冰架使浅水处变的不适宜动物居住。
• The big silver fish lay in the shallows at Howard's feet.
  这条银色的大鱼已经躺在霍华德脚边的浅滩上。
• We went for a wade in the shallows. This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits.
  我们到浅水处去趟水。这趟路跑得他大为扫兴。
• Some of the turtles he'd seen in the shallows looked big enough to bite him in half.
  有些沙洲上的海龟看起来一口就能把他咬成两半。
• A pale heron rises up with a start from the shallows and with a couple of sullen wingbeats glides away over the water.
  一只苍鹭从浅水中惊起，与两只默不作声的蜂鸟在水面上飞越而过。我的旅程中有一片很高的芦苇丛，在我经过时总会窃窃私语。
• Then he drifted back to Lake superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore.
  后来他东漂西荡又回到了苏必利尔湖，那天他还在找点什么活儿干的时候，丹科迪的游艇在湖边的浅滩上抛下钱来。
• The majority beach enlarges and mud filling merges and channel narrows down and bed River shallows etc.
  因此，出现多数洲滩淤胀扩大扣淤积合并扩大，河槽变窄、河床变浅等现象；
• The mare splashed through the shallows, trampling down the reeds.
  母马踏过浅滩蹂躏了一些野草。
• Shallows and sponge bioherms are the main facies of carbonate platform systems.
  碳酸盐岩台地体系包括浅滩及海绵生物丘等相带；