音标:[ʃәul] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 浅水, 浅滩, 沙洲, 鱼群, 暗礁, 潜在危险
a. 浅的
vi. 鱼成群而游, 变浅
vt. 使变浅
n. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
n. a stretch of shallow water
词型变化:名词复数形式 : shoals ; 现在分词 : shoaling ; 过去式 : shoaled ; 过去分词 : shoaled ; 第三人称单数 : shoals
考试类型:[IELTS/GRE]

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
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