“美是肤浅的。”妈妈会说。"Beauty is only skin deep," my mother would say.他自称为历史学家, 但是他的书都是些肤浅的通俗作品.He calls himself a historian, but his books are a mere journalism.这是一本立论肤浅的书.It's a superficial book....

“肤浅的”的英语可以翻译为：peripheral，shallow，[法] superficial，skin-deep，surface ...