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Shallow People Surface ʃæloʊ Adj.浅的 Youngsters Rush Marriage

Front shallow
Pron ['ʃæloʊ]
Back 【shallow】
adj.浅的
Youngsters usually rush into marriage with only the shallow notions of what love and responsibility mean.
年青的人通常对爱和责任只有一些肤浅的观念,就匆匆地结婚。
Vocab
shallowlacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

The adjective shallow can describe things that aren't very deep, like a shallow puddle, or people who don't have much emotional or intellectual depth, like shallow people who judge others on their looks and how much money they have.

Shallow likely comes from the Old English word sceald, which means "shoal," the water near a shoreline. So, shallow describes something that is close to the surface — like the shallow roots of a newly-planted tree or a person whose interest in someone or something isn't very deep. For instance, a shallow person might go to the opening of a new art exhibition not so much to see the artworks as meet the wealthy people on the museum's board of trustees.

All forms of 'shallow' will appear on average once every 328 pages.
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shallowly
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