shelve
美音:
[ʃelv
]英音:
[ʃelv
]vt.置于架子上,缓议,搁置,解雇 vi.倾斜
难易程度:
shelve为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词:shelver 动词过去式:shelved 过去分词:shelved 现在分词:shelving 第三人称单数:shelves
近义词, 同义词
shelve
/ʃelv; ʃɛlv/
v [Tn]
1 put (books, etc) on a shelf or shelves 将(书等)放在搁架上.
2 (fig 比喻) abandon or postpone consideration of (a plan, project, problem, etc); delay dealing with (sth) 放弃或搁置(计画、方案、问题等); 缓议(某事物)
*The plans for a new theatre have had to be shelved because of lack of money. 兴建新剧院的计画因资金短缺只好搁置起来.
/ʃelv; ʃɛlv/
v [I, Ip] ~ (away/down/off) (of land) slope gradually (in the specified direction) (指陆地)呈缓坡倾斜
*The river-bottom shelves here. 河底从这里呈缓坡倾斜.
* The shore shelves down to the sea. 海岸向海面的倾斜角度很小.
shelve
v
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: shelves, plural of shelf]
[T]
to decide not to continue with a plan, idea etc, although you might continue with it at a later time
Plans to reopen the school have been shelved .
[I always + adverb/preposition]
land that shelves is at a slight angle
The garden shelves gently towards the sea.
[T]
to put something on a shelf, especially books