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shoal

/shohl/US // ʃoʊl //UK // (ʃəʊl) //

滩涂,浅滩,岸边,沿海地区

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
    • : a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of little depth, as water; shallow.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become shallow or more shallow.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to become shallow.
    • : Nautical. to sail so as to lessen the depth of.

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Examples

  • Expect lots of shoals and waves, with long eddies between rapids.

  • Alter finds little evidence of open bigotry in his past, but Carter usually managed to navigate the perilous shoals of racial politics in the Deep South by portage — avoiding them as best he could.

  • Off the entrance is a high rocky islet, the Nobby, within which the channel is shoal and dangerous to pass.

  • The continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.

  • At a short quarter of a mile from the point is a rocky shoal of small size, between which and the shore there is deep water.

  • Some shoal marks on the water were observed opposite these islands, but their existence was not ascertained.

  • At the bottom of Knocker's Bay is a shoal mangrove opening, of no importance.