run aground on the shoals：在浅滩搁浅

看到这么一句话：Harter’s remarks remind me of something Howard H. Stevenson, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus, told me by way of explaining why so many successful professionals run aground on the shoals of midlife ennui.

run aground on the shoals 指“在浅滩搁浅”。shoal指浅滩。run aground指搁浅，通常后面跟着 on something。

run aground (on something)[for a ship] to ram its hull into something beneath the water and get stuck.

例句：
run aground on these rocky shoals
Unfortunately it is on these rocky shoals that the commission is likely to run aground.
因此令人深感不幸的是,该委员会前进的步伐很有可能在这片布满岩石的浅滩上搁浅.

The ship ran aground on a reef and had to wait for high tide to get free.
船在（暗）礁搁浅，不得不等待涨潮。

I was afraid we would run aground in the storm.
我担心我们要在暴风雨中搁浅了。