音标:['mɒθbɒ:l] ;
n. 樟脑丸, 保藏
vt. 封存
a. 封存的
n. a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing
v. put into long-term storage
词型变化:名词复数形式 : mothballs ; 现在分词 : mothballing ; 过去式 : mothballed ; 第三人称单数 : mothballs ; 过去分词 : mothballed
词性分布:
名词100%

mothball的用法和样例:

例句

  1. Decided to put the plan into mothballs.决定先把此项计划搁置

词汇搭配

  • in mothballs收存起来

经典引文

  • Take the Paley Report out of mothballs, and review its recommendations.

    出自:A. E. Stevenson
  • Apollo hardware put in mothballs..could be brought out.

    出自:Guardian
【近义词】

美国习惯用语第855:迫不得已的时候(音频) put in mothballs 我最近建议制作一个新节目,以美国语言和文化为主题,举行相关的知识竞赛,大家都说是个好主意,让我立即开始做。 谁知我的一个同

发表于:2019-03-14 / 阅读(589) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
'ave it
? la seconde
a smoking gun
abetalipoproteinaemia
accountancy
aggregate species
alluvial filter
antebor
apc connector
apoareion
army health nursing
ATM adaptation layer
barochoric
battlefleet
bicarboxylic acid cycle
cable message
carbazole
carpentry tongue
category of categories
cedillos
Cherga
Chernogorsk
chicken
chopper channel
class-angle
coefficient of variation (cv)
collage
colo(u)r fastness to decatizing
Congridae
consumer choice
count goods
cycle triple
Double One-Touch Option
drawingcompasses
drop message
engineer in chief
examination of ovarian function
excitation control of alternator SCR system
external void fraction
fargona viloyati
feature sets
Fonte Boa
free headroom
haranguer
hepatotropic
hydraulic-engine
hypersonic aircraft
hypothalamic-hypophyseal-adrenal
immediate mission request
incribed securities
inductor microphone
informational technology for emergency management
infrared journal temperature detection point
Innset
insanus
intituling
Inula cappa
jungle rot
justice of assize
Kavaratti Atoll
late development of accounting
Lesnaya Khmelevka
lexicographical order
limed juice pump
mallens
microanalytically
miniature camera
molybdenum silicide
Morse inker
neck pain
Nkhota-Kota
nonmundane
oilfield development and exploitation
outsole
outward documentary bill
pale-gold
paludament
parabrachial nuclei
pen ... in
personal number
personlike
phenylene-diacetic acid
photoelectron stream
piney
pitman-knife alignment
post-Einsteinian
pride comes before a fall
PTGA
real growth rate
rembling
santo-tomas
satsuma huberi
selfreproducing system
six feet under
statuary
substance-abuse
supervision and administration
tetrapod wall
Tylostypia sven-hedini Kr.
Vyazemskiy Rayon
X-ray microanalysis
Yukawa force