shoals

英 [ʃəʊlz]

美 [ʃoʊlz]

n.  鱼群; 浅滩; 水下沙洲
shoal的第三人称单数和复数

COCA.19658

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

双语例句

• The navigator skillfully guided the ship over the dangerous shoals.
  领航员机智地带领船只通过险滩。
• They have had to maneuver the ship to avoid unforeseen shoals and shallows.
  他们必须设法避开无法预见的暗礁和浅滩。
• 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。
• Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
  布满了淹没在水中的暗礁、沙丘或者浅滩。
• China, Vietnam and Taiwan all claim the Spratly Islands, a string of mostly uninhabited reefs and shoals in the South China Sea that are believed to sit atop large oil and gas deposits.
  中国大陆、越南和台湾都声称南沙群岛属于自己领土。南沙群岛是中国南海上一连串大多无人居住的礁石和浅滩，人们认为其海底拥有丰富的石油和天然气资源。
• A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
  顶上有一盏灯的塔，它能给过往船只水浅的警报。
• They do, however, have a very special talent for using their noises to find their way about the oceans and to locate shoals of fish.
  然而，海豚确实有特殊的才能，可以利用它们发出的声音在大海里探路和确定鱼群的位置。
• The big Shoals is one of the most famous fishing areas in north America.
  大浅滩使北美最著名的捕鱼区之一。
• Among them swam shoals of fish.
  鱼群在他们中间游过。
• On that spring afternoon in Berkeley, Fred and I talked for two hours about his family's adventure, about its climax when the ketch ran aground on shoals in the same perilous archipelago.
  在那个春天的午后，魏斐德和我在伯克利聊了有两个小时，我们谈了他们家庭的冒险故事以及双桅纵帆船在那个危险的珊瑚礁群搁浅时的情景。