on the shelf

on the shelf

• • 放在一边；搁置
  • (老人)年老无用；退职；闲散
  • [口语](老处女)嫁不出去；[美国俚语](解除婚约的待嫁女子)社交活动不积极
  • [俚语]推迟的，延期的
  • [古语]在当铺里
  • [口语]被捕
  • [俚语]死去
  • [俚语、强盗用语]被流放

• one-stepped
• a fully paid-up member of sth
• nationalises
• make the papers
• MSEM
• Ingram
• fly-spray
• artificial upwelling
• toadstone
• Priscol
• atmospheric engine
• essentialism
• drip-mat
• gozzan
• courtesy visit / call
• summer savoury
• on behalf of
• ensorcel
• lar
• stockingless
• magnetic field strength
• pie-in-the-sky
• heavy-hitter
• Plymouth Colony
• in embryo
• cactus alkaloid
• afflated
• monarchic
• claustrophobically
• tether
• bargain for/on sth
• make（或open） a book （〈美〉 make book）
• B indicator
• mungoose
• boarding school
• stoned
• rucksackful
• mensae
• under the aegis of sb / sth
• prepend
• grimy
• -tious
• mytho-
• immurations
• Hydrogen Carbonates
• integral-type flange
• secondary line
• get sth out
• expansibilities
• malathions
• pertinent
• generativists
• make weight
• saber-toothed
• ectethmoid
• tripalmitins
• amylism
• scotomas
• mechanistics
• sedge families
• anticipate
• aloins
• equity theories
• jack something in
• elephant bird
• furbish lousewort
• percivals
• heping
• upon (further 或 closer) acquaintance
• break the egg in someone's pocket
• wambly
• giant cane
• International Civil Organization
• a sight to see
• rewardest
• synecdoche
• border collies
• allotetraploids
• pulse demoder
• tackboards
• is's 或 is
• close the door to
• specky
• Sennacherib
• FORATOM
• illy
• dieb. secund.
• be married to sth
• dismissed
• digital output
• dump wagon
• wield
• thivel
• electrolyte balances
• negamile
• misaddressed或drest
• lend / give colour to sth
• rolling
• fribble
• neutral granulation