shoal

英 [ʃəʊl]

美 [ʃoʊl]

n.  鱼群; 浅滩; 水下沙洲
vt.  变浅变浅; 驶入

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

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.12753

牛津词典

noun

• 鱼群
  a large number of fish swimming together as a group
• 浅滩；水下沙洲
  a small hill of sand just below the surface of the sea

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 鱼群
  Ashoal offish is a large group of them swimming together.
  1. Among them swam shoals of fish.
     鱼群在他们中间游过。
  2. ...tuna shoals.
     金枪鱼群

英英释义

noun

• a large group of fish
  1. a school of small glittering fish swam by
  Synonym:school
• a stretch of shallow water
  Synonym:shallow
• a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide

verb

• become shallow
  1. the lake shallowed over time
  Synonym:shallow
• make shallow
  1. The silt shallowed the canal
  Synonym:shallow

双语例句

• During periods of elevation the area of the land and of the adjoining shoal parts of the sea will be increased.
  在上升的时期，陆地和附近浅滩的面积都将扩大。
• We need to port the boat to get around the shoal.
  我们得左转舵以绕过浅滩。
• He was transferred to Shoal Creek Mental Institution for an indefinite period
  他被转到了肖尔溪精神病院，要在那里无限期地呆下去。
• Study on Utilization of Freshwater Resource on Nanhui East Shoal in Changjiang Estuary;
  南汇边滩是长江口、杭州湾以及外海三者交互作用的特殊地带。
• Whom shall I miss in the lonely shoal?
  寂寞沙洲我该思念谁？
• The technical research and practice of the construction of sea levee and platforms for the oil fields in the shoal area on the mouth of Liaohe River are briefly introduced.
  介绍了辽河滩海油田河口地区的海堤及平台工程建设的技术研究及实践。
• Recent research had shown that fish recognised individual shoal mates, social prestige and even tracked relationships.
  最近的研究表明鱼可以识别各自的鱼群伙伴，社会威望，甚至相关的人际关系。
• What the shore was, whether rock or sand, whether steep or shoal, we knew not;
  等待着我们的海岸是岩石还是沙滩，是陡岸还是浅滩，我们一无所知。
• With the bottom lodged on a reef or shoal in shallow water.
  在浅水里底部卡在礁石或者沙洲上。
• Shoal is the clustering engine for GlassFish ( v2 and later versions) and JonAS application servers.
  Shoal是GlassFish（v2及后续版本）和JonAS应用服务器的集群引擎。