shelve

Word family

1 [transitiveT]CANCEL to decide not to continue with a plan, idea etc, although you might continue with it at a later time 搁置〔计划、想法等〕

Plans to reopen the school have been shelved.

重新开办这所学校的计划被搁置了。

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2 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]HORIZONTAL# land that shelves is at a slight angle 〔地面〕轻微倾斜

The garden shelves gently towards the sea.

这座花园微微向海的方向倾斜。

3. [transitiveT]PUT to put something on a shelf, especially books 将〔书等〕放在架子上，将…上架

Examples from the Corpus

shelve• Only a few delegates sensed that pressing problems had been shelved.• All of this information can be discovered by checking with those who work at the circulation desk and those who shelve books.• Plans for the new stadium have been shelved due to a lack of funding.• Plans for a new stadium have been shelved for now.• Every inch of space in the tiny shop was crammed with goods, piled, stacked and shelved in chaotic order.• I bundle it away into its folder and shelve it.• The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.• The city shelved the project due to lack of funding.

Plans ... shelved• The project never happened, plans were shelved.

From Longman Business Dictionary

shelveshelve /ʃelv/ verb [transitiveT]

to decide not to continue with a plan, idea etc, although you might continue with it at a later time

Plans for the project have been shelved.

The company agreed to shelve its 300 billion warrant-bond issue.

Origin shelve

(1500-1600) shelves, plural of shelf

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