shoal

英 [ʃəʊl] 美 [ʃoʊl]

• adj. 浅的
• n. 浅水处；沙洲；鱼群；一大群
• v. （使)变浅；群聚

过去式: shoaled 过去分词: shoaled 现在分词: shoaling 第三人称单数: shoals

shoal的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

英英释义

Noun:

1. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

2. a stretch of shallow water

3. a large group of fish;

   "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
   

Verb:

1. make shallow;

   "The silt shallowed the canal"
   

2. become shallow;

   "the lake shallowed over time"
   

shoal的用法和样例：

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. In the shoal water, we could see shoals of tiny fish darting about.
   在浅水区，我们看到一群小鱼在游来游去。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The boat struck a shoal and fetched up all standing.
   那艘船撞上浅滩突然停了下来。
2. I waded in the shoal almost a mile before I got to dry land.
   我在浅滩中涉水几乎一英里远才到了陆地。
3. The ship ported sharply to the left to avoid a shoal.
   船猛烈向左转以躲避一鱼群。
4. Shoals of tourists come here in the summer.
   这里夏季常有大批游客。
5. The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish.
   这条鲨鱼围绕着鱼群游动。

用作动词 (v.)

1. The fishmen shoal the narrow part of a river to fish.
   渔夫使河道狭窄处水变浅以便捕鱼。

词汇搭配

• shoal area 浅水区
• coral shoal 珊旱礁
• shoal head 沙嘴
• shallow shoal 浅滩
• sand shoal 砂质浅滩
• crescent shoal 新月形鱼群
• shoal detector 鱼群探测器
• shoal patch 浅滩
• shoal materials 淤积物
• shoal reef 浅礁
• flat shoal 平坦浅滩

经典引文

• Running aground is the result of..a mistake in assessing the depth of water over a shoal.

  出自：Yachting World

• The real shoals ahead lie in policy and in SDP/Liberal relations.

  出自：London Review of Books

• They would flee to Great Britain in shoals, from the fearful atrocities of their government.

  出自： R. Macaulay

shoal的相关资料：

近反义词

【近义词】

• bank 银行
• bar 酒吧
• reef 暗礁
• shallow 浅的
• school 学校