shallow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 浅的, 肤浅的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, suffi-ciently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bridge leading to Palace Square was not to be found; scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water, and here fell in with two men who very comfort-ably were rocking to and fro in a boat.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They enjoyed drinking out of the shallow cup of warm red wine and water, and they were still more pleased when the priest, flinging back his stole and taking both their hands in his, led them round the lectern to the accompaniment of bass voices chanting "Glory to God."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 19 Midmost of the black-soiled Iowa plain, watered only by a shallow and insignificant creek, the city of Nautilus bakes and rattles and glistens.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had that kind of shallow black eye- Iwant a better word to express an eye that has no depth in it to belooked into- which, when it is abstracted, seems, from somepeculiarity of light, to be disfigured, for a moment at a time, by acast.
-- He was rather a shallow sort of young gentleman, I thought, with ahandsome face, a rapid utterance, and a confident bold air.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pit was a saucer-shaped concave, naturally formed, with a top diameter of about thirty feet, and shallow enough to allow the sunshine to reach their heads.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thirty days of siege!The city ringedwith red-clay rifle pits, the monotonous booming of cannon that never rested, the long lines of ambulances and oxcarts dripping blood down the dusty streets toward the hospitals, the overworked burial squads dragging out men whenthey were hardly cold and dumping them like so many logs in endless rows of shallow ditches.
-- She thought of Charles who was dead and Ashley who might be deadand all the gay and gallant young men who were rotting in shallow graves and she forgot that she, too, had oncethought them fools.
-- Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing andknew that Melanie had survived the night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.
-- 'Add to this, the pleasure of seeing the various revolu-tions of states and empires; the changes in the lower and 265upper world; ancient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, and over-whelming another; the discovery of many countries yet unknown; barbarity overrunning the politest nations, and the most barbarous become civilized.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
-- They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and be-yond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
-- It was a lovely summer af-ternoon, the shallow lagoon rippled, the full sunshine made Venice, turning its back to them across the water, look dim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in the shallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two.
-- But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies.
-- She wondered whether his want of earnestness might be the natural result of his want of such qualities, and whether it was with people as with ships, that, in too shallow and rocky waters, their anchors had no hold, and they drifted anywhere.
-- There had been no more water on the bar than had sufficed to float the packet in; and now the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown as it lay asleep.
-- Bar could not at once return to his inveiglements of the most enlightened and remarkable jury he had ever seen in that box, with whom, he could tell his learned friend, no shallow sophistry would go down, and no unhappily abused professional tact and skill prevail (this was the way he meant to begin with them); so he said he would go too, and would loiter to and fro near the house while his friend was inside.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.
-- And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other whales sometimes are.
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