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shelf

美音:[ʃelf ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.架子,搁板

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名词复数:shelves 名词:shelfful

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rock  reef  snag  quicksand  shoals  shallows  bank  shelf  flat    

shelf


/ʃelf; ʃɛlf/
n (pl shelves / Felvz; FZlvz/)
1 flat rectangular piece of wood, metal, glass or other material fastened horizontally to a wall or in a cupboard, bookcase, etc for things to be placed on (柜橱、书架等的)搁架, 搁板
*put up a shelf 搭搁板
* a shelf full of crockery 摆满了陶器的架子
* a `bookshelf 书架. =>illus at App
1 见附录1插图, page xvi.
2 thing resembling a shelf, esp a piece of rock projecting from a cliff, etc or from the edge of a mass of land under the sea 搁板状物; (尤指)悬崖等上突出的岩石, 大陆架
*the continental shelf 大陆架.
3 (idm 习语) on the `shelf (infml 口)
(a) (of a person) put aside as if no longer useful (指人)被闲置(似已无用)
*A retired person should not be made to feel he's on the shelf. 不应该让退休的人感到自己是个闲人.
(b) (often sexist 常含性别偏见) (of an unmarried woman) regarded as being too old to be likely to be asked to marry sb (指未婚女子)被认为年龄较大因而不太可能有人向她求婚
*Women used to think they were on the shelf at 30. 过去女人一到30岁就认为是过了结婚年龄.

shelf


npluralshelves [ʃelvz/
1. Will this shelf sustain the weight of all these books?
    这个书架承受得住这些书的重量吗?

2. The plates are on the shelf in the kitchen.
    盘子放在厨房的架子上。

3. This explanation evidently conveyed something to the woman who searched shelf after shelf.
    他的解释显然对女售货员有些启示。她一个货架接着一个货架地寻找,

4. The ones on the shelf.
    是架子上的那几只。

5. On this shelf.
    这个架子上。

6. Since few shoppers know what the UPC means, there is a sign on the shelf giving the name of the product, its weight and its price.
    因为顾客几乎不知道条形码所指代的东西,所以货架上一般有一个小牌,写着商品的名称、重量及价格。

7. Prices are shown on the shelf.
    价格标在货架上。

8. Customers — some dressed in work clothes, some in expensive suits and overcoats — circulate among the counters and stare at shelf after shelf of roses in more than 50 colors.
    顾客们有的身着工装,有的身着昂贵的西服和外套,他们在店内的柜台间走动,一架一架地浏览50多种颜色的玫瑰。

9. From the shore line, out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.
    从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里的区域是大陆架慢坡,从地质学上来说,它是大陆的一部分。

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