单词 | shallow |
释义 | shal·low I. 1. a. < shallow water > < a shallow dish > < shallow wells > < a shallow grave > < shallow valleys > b. of soil c. 2. a. < the broad flight of shallow steps — Charles Dickens > < office buildings have taken the form of shallow slabs — Lewis Mumford > < a shallow bridgehead had been established — P.W.Thompson > b. of a lens 3. a. < will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes — Oscar Wilde > < his short book is repetitious, untidy in form, shallow in characterization — Charles Lee > < offhand sayings, flippant judgments, and shallow generalizations — J.H.Newman > b. < the general rule that specialists must be narrow and generalists shallow — W.B.Fagg > < a shallow demagogue who incited the mob — V.L.Parrington > 4. of musical tone 5. of breathing II. transitive verb < the slow current of the silt-laden water shallowed the canal — E.L.Sabin > intransitive verb < the creek gully shallowed and widened — H.L.Davis > III. 1. < wading in the rocky shallows of the river — Marcia Davenport > < the sloop … skimming a clear glass-green shallows — Nelson Hayes > 2. 3. Britain IV. |
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