shallows

There are dangerous rocks and shallows near the island.

岛附近有险礁和浅滩。

and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and in this way let themselves be driven along.

又恐怕在赛耳底沙滩上搁了浅，就落下篷来，任船飘去。

Above, the Medusa-like arms of a northern basket star (right) seek a meal of zooplankton beside a polar alcyonarian soft coral in the shallows beneath an ice sheet in the Canadian Arctic.

意译：在加拿大北圈一层薄冰之下，一种低级腔肠动物软珊瑚类，被那一组令人恐怖像蛇发女怪肢体在北地域寻找软珊瑚做为一顿美餐。