樟脑丸;卫生球 A mothball is a small ball made of a special chemical, which you can put among clothes or blankets in order to keep moths away.
VERB 把(计划、设备等)束之高阁,暂停 If someone in authority mothballs a plan, factory, or piece of equipment, they decide to stop developing or using it, perhaps temporarily.
...the decision to mothball the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, for safety and political reasons... 出于安全和政治原因,暂时关闭巴丹核电厂的决定
The shuttle programme has now been mothballed to save money. 为节省资金,航天飞行计划已被束之高阁。
Even in the best case where these tools and models can be created, all it takes is a re-factoring of how the source site presents its content ( or mothballing and abandonment) to break the integration process, and cause mashup application failure. 在最理想的情况下,可以创建这些工具和模型,但依然存在一个问题:源站点如何呈现自己的内容,这可能会破坏集成过程,并导致mashup应用程序出错。
As well as pruning workforces, many manufacturing, metals and mining companies are idling some factories and mothballing others. 除了裁员,很多制造公司、金属公司以及矿业公司还暂时停止了一些工厂的运转并且关闭了部分工厂。
To some extent, this is the white-collar sector finding ways of doing what manufacturers have always done cutting shifts and mothballing plants but in industry too it has gone deeper. 在某种程度上,这是白领部门在想方设法做那些制造商们一直在做的事情减少轮班,搁置设备但工业界的情况也愈演愈烈。
Many companies are mothballing mines and curtailing exploration to conserve cash as prices tumble. 由于价格暴跌,许多公司封存矿山、减少勘探以保存现金。
This paper provides synthesizer's heat exchanger area design method of additive mothballing wall temperature bondage condition in analysed corrosion mechanism of hydrogen chloride synthesizer. 文章在分析水夹套式氯化氢合成炉腐蚀机理基础上提出防腐壁温约束条件的合成炉换热面积设计方法。