A shelf: a flat board fixed at some height, where a thing is set down and simply stays. Putting something up on a shelf lifts it out of your hands without throwing it away — it sits still, it waits, and you can reach it again. The shape matters too. A shelf is a flat step sticking out from a wall, so ground that steps down in wide flat looks like the same thing.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records the verb as a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf, which is why the shelf picture sits under every use of the transitive verb.
來源資料說這個動詞是從 shelves(shelf 的複數)倒推出來的。先有架子,才有「把東西放上架子」這個動作,所以架子的畫面幾乎貼著字面。
Wiktionary, "shelve" (etymology 1)
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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Shelvename
- 1
A hamlet in Worthen with Shelve parish, western Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3399).
shelveverb詞源 1/ʃɛlv/
- 1
To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
- to shelve a closet or a library
- 2
To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
- The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
- Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.
- 3
slangTo place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
- I love shelving ecstasy!
- I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know.
- 4
slangTo place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
- 5
To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
- They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
- [T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business.
- 6
To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
- The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities.
- 7
obsoleteTo hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
- Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life.
- 8
To extend via a series of projecting shelves.
- The beach shelved quickly and he kept underwater as long as he could, swimming with powerful strokes and feeling the soft coolness all over him.
shelvenoun詞源 1/ʃɛlv/
- 1
archaicA rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
- "This lake," said Bruce, "whose barriers drear / Are precipices sharp and sheer, / Yielding no track for goat or deer, / Save the black shelves we tread,[…]"
- Above her, on a crag's uneasy shelve, / Upon his elbow rais'd, all prostrate else, / Shadow'd Enceladus; […]
shelveverb詞源 2/ʃɛlv/
- 1
dialectalTo tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
- 2
Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
- The spirit cometh first, wrapt 'twixt our wings, / Adown the causeway steep, / That shelveth towards the silent shadowy deep, / The grave of things.
- From that island's crown / Landward a slope of heather shelveth down / To meet the bar, but all the outer sides, / Sheer walls of porphyry, stem the swinging tides / The Atlantic sendeth, […]
- 3
obsoleteTo be in an inclined or sloping position.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。