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shelf

/shelf/US // ʃɛlf //UK // (ʃɛlf) //

搁置,搁板,搁架,搁浅

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural shelves [shelvz]. /ʃɛlvz/.

    • : a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
    • : the contents of this: a shelf of books.
    • : a surface or projection resembling this; ledge.
    • : Physical Geography. a sandbank or submerged extent of rock in the sea or river.the bedrock underlying an alluvial deposit or the like.continental shelf.
    • : Archery. the upper part of the bow hand, on which the arrow rests.

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Examples

  • The 10-inch-deep shelf up top is a great place for placing plants, picture frames, keys, lamps, or any other odds and ends the space might require, too.

  • The empty supermarket shelves and shortages of medical supplies of recent months have driven home the fact that supply chain stability is not just a business issue.

  • Even when you’re anxious, you’re delivering those packages, stocking those shelves, and doing all that essential work so that all of us can keep moving forward.

  • It’s not the first product to be torn from shelves, physical or otherwise.

  • You can add robe hooks to the back of the door and install a hotel towel shelf above the commode where towels are out of the way but easily accessible.

  • But by far the most interesting object, which held enormous fascination for me, sat high up on the top shelf.

  • She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.

  • And much of it, unlike Pappy, is right there on the shelf, humbly, quietly waiting to be tried.

  • The men preside over three display cases, each with three shelves, seven comic books per shelf.

  • On the top shelf, sandwiched between Detective Comics No.27 and Superman No.1, are three issues of Actions Comics No.1.

  • On a shelf near one of these windows stood the little Madonna, again wreathed with vines as in San Pasquale.

  • The walls were painted blue, the skirting almost a third of the height, and so wide at the top as to form a narrow shelf.

  • On a shelf above the divan, however, were many books, and Gwynne ran his eye over them.

  • Kerry crossed the room, laid his oilskin and cane upon a chair, and from the shelf where it reposed took a squat volume.

  • Moodily he stood there, one hand on the high mantel shelf, one foot upon an andiron, his eyes upon the flames.