shelf
英 [?elf]
美[??lf]
- n. 架子；擱板；擱板狀物
CET4TEM4考研CET6中低頻詞核心詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?shelves;
中文詞源
shelf 架子，擱架，大陸架
來自古英語 scylfe,架子，擱架，船板，甲板，來自 Proto-Germanic*skelf,分開，切開，來自 PIE*skel,切，分，詞源同 scale,shell.引申諸相關詞義。
英文詞源
- shelf
- shelf: [14] Shelf appears to have been borrowed from Middle Low German schelf ‘shelf’. This may have come from the Germanic base *skelf- ‘split’, which also produced Old English scylfe ‘partition’, the word’s underlying meaning therefore being a ‘piece of split wood used for standing things on’. The derivative shelve dates from the 16th century.
- shelf (n.)
- late 14c., from Middle Low German schelf "shelf, set of shelves," or from Old English cognate scylfe, which perhaps meant "shelf, ledge, floor," and scylf "peak, pinnacle," from Proto-Germanic *skelf- "split," possibly from the notion of a split piece of wood (compare Old Norse skj?lf "bench"), from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave" (see scale (n.1)).
Shelf life first recorded 1927. Phrase on the shelf "out of the way, inactive" is attested from 1570s; of unmarried women with no prospects from 1839. Off the shelf "ready-made" is from 1936. Meaning "ledge of rock" is from 1809, perhaps from or influenced by shelf (n.2). Related: Shelves. - shelf (n.2)
- "sandbank," 1540s, of unknown origin. Related: Shelfy "abounding in sandbanks."
雙語例句
- 1. The house stands on a shelf of rock among pines.
- 房子矗立在松樹叢中一塊突出的巖石上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.
- 她不小心把架子上的茶葉罐碰了下來。
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- 3. He's useless at DIY. He won'teven put up a shelf.
- 他自己動手能力太差，甚至連搭個架子都不會。
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- 4. I was afraid of getting left on the shelf.
- 我害怕嫁不出去。
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- 5. He reached for a tin of tobacco on the shelf behind him.
- 他伸手去夠身后架子上的一罐煙葉。
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