mothballs

英 [ˈmɒθbɔːlz] 美 [ˈmɔːθbɔːlz]

n.  卫生球; 樟脑丸
v.  封存; 搁置不用
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  1. 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.
    1. 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.
      1. ...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
      2. 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。
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    双语例句

    1. He obligingly pulled an old suit out of mothballs and wore it that morning.
      在那个早上，他自觉地拿出了一件充满樟脑球气味的旧西装并穿上了它。
    2. The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs for years in dead old Uncle Henry's steamer trunk.
      厚厚的黑色羊绒柔软而蓬松，这件双排扣暗钮长大衣显然还没上过身，看样子，就像用樟脑球在老亨利叔叔的扁平旅行箱里保存了多年。
    3. Russia will ferry all crews to the ISS aboard its single-use Soyuz vehicles after the US Space Agency ( NASA) mothballs its shuttle fleet by the end of this year.
      由于美国航天局暂停了航天计划，一直到今年年底，俄罗斯将使用一次性的“联盟号”飞船想向空间站运送宇航员。
    4. But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.
      但是美国载人航天飞行现已搁置，而且在这些委靡的时期，连游客对大坝的骄傲也参杂着哀思。
    5. These will replace China's one "Xia-class" ballistic missile submarine, which experts say is in mothballs.
      这些将会替代中国一种“夏级”弹道导弹潜艇，专家称是进入封存中。
    6. MOST recession-blighted manufacturers worry that their next order is likely to be for mothballs.
      受经济萧条影响，大多数制造商们都在琢磨下回是不是要订樟脑球了。
    7. These products went directly into mothballs as they rolled off the production line.
      这些产品从生产线上一下来就被打入冷宫。
    8. Your relatives'houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.
      你亲戚家总有股檀香或樟脑味儿。
    9. He keep his car in mothballs during the winter.
      在冬天，他把汽车搁置不用。
    10. Naphthalene is the chemical found in mothballs, and one would think the distinctive odor would be noticeable at a level high enough to cause symptoms.
      萘是一种化学成分，有独特的香味，需要相当高的浓度才会引发上述症状。
    11. You can put that idea into mothballs and forget it.
      你可以摈弃那种想法并把它忘掉。
    12. Decided to put the plan into mothballs.
      决定先把此项计划搁置。
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