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Shelve V.搁置 Problem(暂时搁置问 题 Shelf N.1 Related Shelved

单词 shelve
音标 [ʃelv]
解释 v.搁置
红宝书 【英】 v.搁置 (to put off or aside)
【记】 来自shelf(架子);例 :shelve a problem(暂时搁置问 题)
【例】 shelve a problem(暂时搁置问 题)
字源 shelve (v.1)
1590s, "to overhang," also "to provide with shelves," probably a back-formation from shelves, plural of shelf (n.1). Meaning "put on a shelf" first recorded 1650s; metaphoric sense of "lay aside, dismiss" is from 1812. Related: Shelved; shelving.
shelve (v.2)
"to slope gradually," 1610s, from Middle English shelven "to slope," from shelfe "grassy slope," a word related to shelf (n.1). Related: Shelved; shelving.
不择手段背单词 v. 搁置在一边不理
【记】源于: shelf(n 架子)原指搁在架子上不理
趣味全助记 【记】f=v,shelf

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