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verb ʃɛlvʃɛlv [with object]1Place or arrange (items, especially books) on a shelf. 把（物件，尤指书）放上架子（或搁板） we had catalogued and shelved all the books shipped in that day Example sentencesExamples - I probably would have just thumbed through the pages, looked up the price, and placed it with a pile of other books waiting their turn to be shelved.
- Like I would plunk down my quarters, hard earned by shelving half a million books every day at the Great Neck Public Library, to help a frog cross a highway.
- There are times when the book should be shelved and left at the library.
- I was too busy watching Daisy shelve new books for the librarian.
- The book will thus prove useful even in libraries that already shelve the original sources in which the essays first appeared.
- I have shelved the book once more in anger and it will remain until the next time I forget the cold harsh reality of cook books and their evil ways.
- My books are shelved according to where I expect them to be, and by serendipity.
- An amnesiac mind is a bookstore whose books are shelved spine-in, so we cannot read the titles.
- Lee started shelving the books in the box, noting that she had read a few of them herself.
- I shelve my own books by colour, and like with jellybeans, the black ones are mighty unappetising.
- My back still ached from shelving hundreds of books in the school library.
- I've already shelved this book for several years, and have no desire to do it again.
- English-language books of aphorisms are most likely to be shelved in the ‘personal growth’ section, offering comforting and uplifting thoughts to help us through the day.
- She let me spend hours helping her shelve and catalog books.
- One of the elderly librarians, who was shelving books nearby, scowled at us.
- As it is I have to spend a whole five minutes deprograming them (with a little help from the reality of the situation) and quite frankly I could shelve a load of books in that time.
- I have a vague memory of the books being shelved under ‘C’ in the library when I were a lass.
- She looked at his blushing form next to a stack of books to be shelved.
- It is unfortunate that this book is shelved in the biology section of the bookstore instead of in self-help where it would get the attention it deserves.
- This past winter I was at work, happily shelving a cartful of books, when I looked up and saw, right in front of me, a nun, dressed in full-on nun apparel.
2Decide not to proceed with (a project or plan), either temporarily or permanently. 〈喻〉搁置，暂缓考虑（项目，计划） plans to reopen the school have been shelved 重开学校的计划已被搁置了起来。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, the Wing Commander's plans for a large experimental military pigeon loft with 400 birds to test his idea were shelved after arguments over who should pay.
- The author refused to compromise and subsequently the book remained shelved.
- There is already a deal in place at Bravo for a new TV series, Project Red, which deals exclusively with films that are either shelved or stopped before production.
- But councillors decided to shelve the plans after protesters claimed the 50 pence-an-hour charge would deter people from using the parks.
- The water authority has temporarily shelved the plans because of local hostility.
- Fears of a major traffic snarl-up has prompted council chiefs to shelve work on a new cycle route at Sadlers Farm during peak hours.
- After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election.
- But the plans were shelved and the project deemed ‘too ambitious’.
- The chiefs have decided to shelve this plan so a decision on the future of emergency services can be taken as part of the strategic review of hospital services across the trust.
- But talks with the credit - card supplier have ended after the bank decided to shelve plans to open a large customer contact centre in Europe.
- After selling a script to Miramax, he spent a year developing it before they decided to shelve the project.
- News that a gambling overhaul could be shelved should prompt Blackpool Council to seek new family attractions for key sites, casino opponents claimed this week.
- But, in July, the Government announced it was shelving referenda in Yorkshire & the Humber and the North West.
- The government temporarily shelved its plans earlier this year because of strong opposition by employees.
- As a result, the council has decided to shelve plans for the e-voting trial in case it caused any disruption.
- A previous plan to increase the size of the dump in 1994 was shelved and an expansion moratorium was placed the following year.
- The council had decided to temporarily shelve the proposal to standardise the sales illustrations of life insurers.
- As if to prove his point, the publishing empire tried to censor, then shelve, the book.
- As expected, Straw has shelved the referendum, but will there be a price to pay?
- The plan was temporarily shelved due to capital starvation and a shortage of technology, as well as a lack of talent to carry out the project.
Synonyms put to one side, lay aside, pigeonhole, stay, stand over, keep in abeyance, suspend, mothball postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold over/off, carry over, reschedule, do later, adjourn put off the evil day/hour abandon, drop, abolish, withdraw, throw out, do away with, give up, take away, stop, put an end to, cancel, eliminate, cut, jettison North American put over, table, lay on the table, take a rain check on North American Law continue informal put on ice, put on the back burner, put in cold storage, axe, ditch, dump, junk, chuck in rare remit, respite 3Fit with shelves. 装架子（或搁板）于 one whole long wall was shelved 整堵长墙都装了搁架。 Example sentencesExamples - The walls were shelved all the way down, with the exception of the bathroom door.
Derivativesnoun Where appropriate, shelvers will note if there are other copies of the book, or other books on the subject on the shelf. Example sentencesExamples - But the most important job lesson came from observing what we shelvers called the ‘lifers’: the full-time, professional librarians, and the amazing bitterness some of them exhibited.
- And several times the shelvers came up to me and smiled and thanked me.
- But having once been hired as a shelver and fired for incompetence a few hours later, I can attest that library work is larger than it appears in the side mirror.
- They are asking shelvers to specify their preferred times.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense 'project like a shelf' (Shakespearean usage)): from shelves, plural of shelf1. shelf from Middle English: Shelf is from Middle Low German schelf; related forms are Old English scylfe ‘partition’, scylf ‘crag’. The late 16th-century verb shelve had the sense ‘project like a shelf’, first found in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘Her chamber is aloft. And built so shelving, that one cannot climb it’. The form is from shelves, the plural of shelf.
verb ʃɛlvʃɛlv no object, with adverbial (of ground) slope downwards in a specified manner or direction. （地面以特定的方式）渐渐倾斜，向下倾斜 the ground shelved gently down to the water 地面缓缓地向水面倾斜。 Example sentencesExamples - If the coastline shelves steeply, then the tsunami would be more devastating as this creates a bigger wave.
- The bottom shelved gently down from the margins and levelled out at 10 feet depth just at the point where the reeds ended.
- White sands shelve steeply down into clear blue-green water.
- Three sides of the feature shelved gently as the waves pushed the shingle towards the shore.
- Less than 5m out from the shore, a mud bank shelves off steeply into the depths, passing through a thick halocline layer in the shallows.
- Go through and out the other end to where the bottom shelves up steeply into the kelp zone.
- From where I stood, the beach shelved steeply into a channel, perhaps chest deep and a long fly cast in width to the edge of the coral, where it rose to no more than my thigh.
- Under water, the shingle beach shelves down to rows of small rocks and kelp beneath the low-water mark.
Synonyms slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, list, bank, heel
OriginLate Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from shelf1. verbʃɛlvSHelv [with object]1Place or arrange (items, especially books) on a shelf. 把（物件，尤指书）放上架子（或搁板） Example sentencesExamples - I was too busy watching Daisy shelve new books for the librarian.
- As it is I have to spend a whole five minutes deprograming them (with a little help from the reality of the situation) and quite frankly I could shelve a load of books in that time.
- My back still ached from shelving hundreds of books in the school library.
- My books are shelved according to where I expect them to be, and by serendipity.
- I've already shelved this book for several years, and have no desire to do it again.
- There are times when the book should be shelved and left at the library.
- I shelve my own books by colour, and like with jellybeans, the black ones are mighty unappetising.
- Lee started shelving the books in the box, noting that she had read a few of them herself.
- I probably would have just thumbed through the pages, looked up the price, and placed it with a pile of other books waiting their turn to be shelved.
- It is unfortunate that this book is shelved in the biology section of the bookstore instead of in self-help where it would get the attention it deserves.
- An amnesiac mind is a bookstore whose books are shelved spine-in, so we cannot read the titles.
- One of the elderly librarians, who was shelving books nearby, scowled at us.
- Like I would plunk down my quarters, hard earned by shelving half a million books every day at the Great Neck Public Library, to help a frog cross a highway.
- This past winter I was at work, happily shelving a cartful of books, when I looked up and saw, right in front of me, a nun, dressed in full-on nun apparel.
- She looked at his blushing form next to a stack of books to be shelved.
- I have a vague memory of the books being shelved under ‘C’ in the library when I were a lass.
- The book will thus prove useful even in libraries that already shelve the original sources in which the essays first appeared.
- English-language books of aphorisms are most likely to be shelved in the ‘personal growth’ section, offering comforting and uplifting thoughts to help us through the day.
- I have shelved the book once more in anger and it will remain until the next time I forget the cold harsh reality of cook books and their evil ways.
- She let me spend hours helping her shelve and catalog books.
2Decide not to proceed with (a project or plan), either temporarily or permanently. 〈喻〉搁置，暂缓考虑（项目，计划） plans to reopen the school have been shelved 重开学校的计划已被搁置了起来。 Example sentencesExamples - But, in July, the Government announced it was shelving referenda in Yorkshire & the Humber and the North West.
- A previous plan to increase the size of the dump in 1994 was shelved and an expansion moratorium was placed the following year.
- There is already a deal in place at Bravo for a new TV series, Project Red, which deals exclusively with films that are either shelved or stopped before production.
- Fears of a major traffic snarl-up has prompted council chiefs to shelve work on a new cycle route at Sadlers Farm during peak hours.
- But the plans were shelved and the project deemed ‘too ambitious’.
- The government temporarily shelved its plans earlier this year because of strong opposition by employees.
- The water authority has temporarily shelved the plans because of local hostility.
- The plan was temporarily shelved due to capital starvation and a shortage of technology, as well as a lack of talent to carry out the project.
- After selling a script to Miramax, he spent a year developing it before they decided to shelve the project.
- But councillors decided to shelve the plans after protesters claimed the 50 pence-an-hour charge would deter people from using the parks.
- As expected, Straw has shelved the referendum, but will there be a price to pay?
- But talks with the credit - card supplier have ended after the bank decided to shelve plans to open a large customer contact centre in Europe.
- News that a gambling overhaul could be shelved should prompt Blackpool Council to seek new family attractions for key sites, casino opponents claimed this week.
- The chiefs have decided to shelve this plan so a decision on the future of emergency services can be taken as part of the strategic review of hospital services across the trust.
- Unfortunately, the Wing Commander's plans for a large experimental military pigeon loft with 400 birds to test his idea were shelved after arguments over who should pay.
- The author refused to compromise and subsequently the book remained shelved.
- As a result, the council has decided to shelve plans for the e-voting trial in case it caused any disruption.
- As if to prove his point, the publishing empire tried to censor, then shelve, the book.
- After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election.
- The council had decided to temporarily shelve the proposal to standardise the sales illustrations of life insurers.
Synonyms put to one side, lay aside, pigeonhole, stay, stand over, keep in abeyance, suspend, mothball 3Fit with shelves. 装架子（或搁板）于 one whole long wall was shelved 整堵长墙都装了搁架。 Example sentencesExamples - The walls were shelved all the way down, with the exception of the bathroom door.
OriginLate 16th century (in the sense ‘project like a shelf’ (Shakespearean usage)): from shelves, plural of shelf. verbʃɛlvSHelv no object, with adverbial (of ground) slope downward in a specified manner or direction. （地面以特定的方式）渐渐倾斜，向下倾斜 the ground shelved gently down to the water 地面缓缓地向水面倾斜。 Example sentencesExamples - Less than 5m out from the shore, a mud bank shelves off steeply into the depths, passing through a thick halocline layer in the shallows.
- The bottom shelved gently down from the margins and levelled out at 10 feet depth just at the point where the reeds ended.
- If the coastline shelves steeply, then the tsunami would be more devastating as this creates a bigger wave.
- Under water, the shingle beach shelves down to rows of small rocks and kelp beneath the low-water mark.
- Go through and out the other end to where the bottom shelves up steeply into the kelp zone.
- Three sides of the feature shelved gently as the waves pushed the shingle towards the shore.
- From where I stood, the beach shelved steeply into a channel, perhaps chest deep and a long fly cast in width to the edge of the coral, where it rose to no more than my thigh.
- White sands shelve steeply down into clear blue-green water.
Synonyms slope, tilt, incline, be at an angle, angle, tip, cant, be askew, skew, lean, dip, pitch, list, bank, heel
OriginLate Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps from shelf. |