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

• 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。
• A boat floats in the shallows, the light golden and rose, foreign;
  一只船在浅水里，金红色的光，陌生；
• 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 mare splashed through the shallows, trampling down the reeds.
  母马踏过浅滩蹂躏了一些野草。
• He led the team to avoid dangerous shallows.
  他带领队伍避开危险的浅滩。
• 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。
• Shielded from the rough waves of open water, dark patches of seaweed flourish in shallows on the east coast of Bali.
  从开放的水域的波涛中隔离出来，暗色繁茂的海藻点缀着巴厘岛东海岸的浅滩。
• The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows
  浅滩上的潮水逐渐退去。
• It is on the heights ( or, as we would say, "in the shallows") that there is warmth and peace.
  在高处（或者，按我们的说法是在浅处）才又暖和又宁静。
• 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。