| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_having-a-small-distance-from-the-bottom-to-the-top |
| 释义 | having a small distance from the bottom to the topThese words describe things that have a small distance from the bottom to the top, or from the ground to the top. The most common word for this is low. The garden was surrounded by a low hedge. Mind your head - the ceilings in this house are quite low. We hiked a low mountain range. UsageLow is not used to talk about the height of living things. Use short instead. He's quite short. Not: He's quite low. The opposite of low is high. The palace is surrounded by a high wall. For more opposites of low, see the article at high. Short can be used to refer to things that have a short length compared to similar things. When short is used of people, it means that they are of less than average height. He's much shorter than I thought. Her hair was cut into a short bob. The word shallow is used to refer to things that have a short distance measured from the top to the bottom, not the bottom to the top. Shallow is often used of bodies of water such as pools and rivers. Stay in the shallow end of the pool, please. Fry up the onions in a shallow pan. Low-lying land is at or near the level of the ground at the sea. Low-lying is always used before a noun. Low-lying areas are prone to flooding. If something is low and wide in an ugly way, you can call it squat. I wish they'd tear down that squat block of flats. Related articlesnear the bottom of a range of sounds |
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