shelve是什么意思，shelve怎么用
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shelve
GRE
📰 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》
—— 《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
The government has shelved the project until at least next year.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。
Atlanta has shelved plans to include golf in the 1996 Games.亚特兰大已搁置了将高尔夫球纳入1996年奥运会的计划。
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：
The shoreline shelves away steeply.海岸线顺势陡直而下。
Seeking common ground while shelving differences is the best practice of Asia-Pacific cooperation.权威用例求同存异是亚太合作的好做法。
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）
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)同近义词
🔍 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)
