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外刊例句
- But it now wants to spin off its metals and coal businesses, largely reversing a merger that created the firm in 2001 (though it shelved the sale of part of the metals business this week, after failing to get a good price for it).
但现在它却想甩掉金属和煤业务,很大程度上倒转了2001年形成这家公司的那场合并(尽管它本周在未能拿到对其金属业务满意的报价之后,暂时搁置了其部分销售)。
——《经济学人》 - That film has long been shelved and is unavailable on any Disney platform because of its undeniably racist content.
由于其无可否认的种族主义内容,这部电影长期以来一直被搁置,并且在任何迪士尼平台上都无法观看。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] place or arrange (items, especially books) on a shelf
[动词] 把(物品,尤指书籍)放或摆在架子上
深入解读
Shelve 一词逆构自熟词 shelf (架子、搁板)的复数 shelves ,最早于16世纪90年代出现在英语中,即用来表示“把……放在架子或搁板上”或者“给……装架子或搁板”,比如:
- 把书放上架
shelve books - 在壁橱内装搁板
shelve a closet
继而引申指“搁置、暂缓考虑”,主要指决定暂时停止或永不继续执行某个计划、项目、想法等,比如:
- 政府决定把这个项目先放一放,至少推迟到明年再说。
The government has shelved the project until at least next year. - 亚特兰大已搁置了将高尔夫球纳入1996年奥运会的计划。
Atlanta has shelved plans to include golf in the 1996 Games.
此外, shelve 同小站(微信公众号:田间小站)推送过的 harry, invalid, wax 等一样,也是个同形异义词。它还有一个动词含义源自中古英语 shelven (倾斜),相应也是用来表示“倾斜、成斜坡”,主要指沙滩、山坡、海床等以特定方式或方向向下倾斜,比如:
- 海岸线顺势陡直而下。
The shoreline shelves away steeply.
权威用例
求同存异是亚太合作的好做法。
Seeking common ground while shelving differences is the best practice of Asia-Pacific cooperation.
出自2023年习主席在亚太经合组织工商领导人峰会上的书面演讲(双语全文)。
同近义词
- adjourn: put off or postpone (a resolution or sentence)
- postpone: cause or arrange for (something) to take place at a time later than that first scheduled
- suspend: defer or delay (an action, event, or judgment)