shelve

• vt. 将（书等）放置在架子上；搁置，将某事放到一旁不予考虑；将…搁在一边；装搁架于；罢免
• vi. （陆地）逐渐倾斜

来自 shelf 的动词形式，比较 proof,prove.引申比喻义搁置，中止，停止。

1. hold back to a later time;

"let's postpone the exam"

2. place on a shelve;

"shelve books"

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.

One could remove junk food to the back of the store and ban them from the shelves at checkout lines.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these book shelves.

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Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

And businesses shelved investment projects.

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Why is it even interested in all those out-of-printlibrary books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades?

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

People shelve the out - of - fashion moral icon and espouse the philosophy of egoism.

搁置了人民的时尚图标和拥护道德哲学的利己主义.

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After a sneak preview of the film they decided to shelve it.

该影片在试映后,他们决定把它搁置起来.

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At this point, the chald cliffs shelve down to the beach.

在这里, 白垩质的峭壁渐渐向海滩倾斜.

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The project became so complex that we had to shelve it.

这个项目变得太复杂了,以至于我们不得不将其搁置起来.

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On using diesel oil, put the transfer switch 2 K to shelve.

5当使用轻油时, 将转换开关2K扳到轻油档.

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On using oil, put the transfer switch 2 K to oil shelve.

当使用重油时, 将转换开关2K扳到重油档.

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The company decided to shelve my project.

公司决定把我的项目搁置起来.

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Then, we will show you how to shelve the books readcall numbers according to the System.

那麽, 我们会告诉你怎样以国会图书馆分类法,按书号排书.

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Responsible for the ordinary maintenance work, including water, electricity, other facilities such as the shelve.

负责全店的日常维修工作, 包括水, 电, 货架等其它设施维护.

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Since he was going abroad to study , he had to shelve his marriage plans.

我们必须搁置我们假期计画, 因为我刚刚失业了.

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They may shelve the difficulties for a while, but they can't put them by indefinitely.

他们可以暂时不考虑这些困难, 但要永远回避是不可能的.

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I shelve books in the library, sometimes it gets monotonous, but the pay is not bad.

我在图书馆把书整理上架, 有时候,这个工作很无聊, 但是薪水还不错.

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