shelve
shelve 英 [ʃelv] 美 [ʃɛlv]
vi. 倾斜，成斜坡 vt. 搁置
进行时:shelving 过去式:shelved 过去分词:shelved 第三人称单数:shelves 名词复数:shelves
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- vi. 倾斜，成斜坡
- vt. 搁置
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1. The government has shelved the idea until at least next year.
政府决定把这个想法先放一放，至少推迟到明年再说。
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2. The beach shelved gently down to the water.
海滩缓缓地向下没入水中。
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3. He disposed his books on the shelves.
把书籍排列在书架上。(shelf的复数)
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4. We shelve them all around the room.
我们把它们放在房间的各处。
- shelve (v.1) 1590s, "to overhang," also "to provide with shelves," probably a back-formation from shelves, plural of shelf (n.1). Meaning "put on a shelf" first recorded 1650s; metaphoric sense of "lay aside, dismiss" is from 1812. Related: Shelved; shelving.
- shelve (v.2) "to slope gradually," 1610s, from Middle English shelven "to slope," from shelfe "grassy slope," a word related to shelf (n.1). Related: Shelved; shelving.
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