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SHALLOW

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Traducere în limba română

shallow I. adjectiv

1. (despre apă) puţin adâncă, mică;

(mar.) shallow draft pescaj mic.

2. (fig.) superficial, fără adâncime, de suprafaţă; gol, deşert, trivial;

a shallow man un om superficial.

shallow II. substantiv

loc puţin adânc, vad; banc de nisip (în parte sub apă).

shallow III. vb. A. tranzitiv

a scădea, a reduce adâncimea (unei ape), a face mai puţin adânc, a scădea, a se micşora.

shallow III. vb. B. intranzitiv

a deveni puţin adânc, a scădea, a se micşora.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

In the morning Lord John and I made our way for a couple of miles through the forest, keeping parallel with the stream; but as it grew ever shallower we returned and reported, what Professor Challenger had already suspected, that we had reached the highest point to which the canoes could be brought.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Supporting this conclusion, the researchers found that the pole-facing slopes of these craters are slightly shallower than their equator-facing slopes, and that the shallowing is more significant in regions that promote ice stability because of Mercury’s orbit around the Sun.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

Had I been older or he less formidable, I might have said what was in my heart, and begged him to give up other things also—to come out from those shallow circles in which he lived, and to find some work that was worthy of his strong brain and his good heart.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just as a grounded boat can float again on shallow water if it is made lighter, a glacier can float over an area where it used to be grounded if it becomes lighter, which it does by melting or by the thinning effects of the glacier stretching out.

(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)

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