Shelve
[ʃelv] or [ʃɛlv]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
(v. t.) To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
(v. i.) To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
手打:瓦内萨
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Put on the shelf, put aside, give the go-by to.
v. n. Slope, incline.
布鲁克整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dismiss, discard, swamp, stifle, shift
ANT:Start, prosecute, pursue, revive, agitate
錄入:索尔
解釋/意思:
v.i. to slope incline.—n. a ledge.—n. Shel′ving a shelving place: (rare) a bank.—adj. Shel′vy sloping shallow.
v.t. to furnish with shelves: to place on a shelf; to put aside.—n. Shel′ving the furnishing with shelves: the act of placing on a shelf: shelves or materials for shelves.
杰里米整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see empty shelves in dreams, indicates losses and consequent gloom. Full shelves, augurs happy contentment through the fulfillment of hope and exertions. See Store.
校對:弗恩
例句/造句/用法:
- That piece of insolence may think, now, that it would be a great success to get her son off upon me, and shelve me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The ground, shelving away below me, was all sand, with a few little heathy hillocks to break the monotony of it in certain places. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This is a large oven containing shelves. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Seeds which remain on our shelves do not germinate, but those which are planted in the soil do; so it is with the yeast plants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Around the room, on shelves, are hundreds of bottles each containing a small quantity of nickel hydrate made in as many different ways, each labelled correspondingly. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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