shelf
shelf — 名詞
- shelfsingular
- shelvesplural
1. A flat piece of wood, glass, or metal attached to a wall or fitted inside a piec
架子
牆上或家具中存放物品的水平板面
A flat piece of wood, glass, or metal attached to a wall or fitted inside a piece of furniture, used for keeping things on.
Megan placed her new books on the shelf above her desk.
Megan 把她的新書放在書桌上方的那層架子上。
collocation: put/place + on the shelf
The glass shelves in the kitchen held jars of spices and dried herbs.
廚房裡的玻璃架子上放著一罐罐香料和乾燥香草。
Kwame built a wooden shelf in the garage to store his garden tools.
Kwame 在車庫裡釘了一個木頭架子來存放他的園藝工具。
collocation: build + shelf
Library shelves across the city were filled with donated children's books.
全市圖書館的架子上都擺滿了民眾捐贈的童書。
compound: library shelves
A row of heavy reference books lined the bottom shelf near the window.
窗邊最底層的架子上排放著一列厚重的參考書。
- put something on a shelf
- take something off a shelf
- shelf space
- top shelf
- bottom shelf
- stock a shelf
文法句型
a/the shelf
shelves
用法筆記
The plural is shelves (not 'shelfs'). Compound nouns like bookshelf, shelf space, and shelf life are very common.
常見錯誤
2. A slab or ledge of stone on a cliff face or beneath the sea surface, sometimes f
岩架
水中或懸崖上扁平的岩石平臺
A slab or ledge of stone on a cliff face or beneath the sea surface, sometimes forming a wide underwater plain.
The research ship mapped the continental shelf off the coast of Brazil.
那艘研究船繪製了巴西外海大陸棚的海底地圖。
term: continental shelf
Vinícius saw a flat shelf of rock where seabirds rested during the storm.
Vinícius 看到一塊平坦的岩石平臺，海鳥在暴風雨中停在那裡休息。
Divers explored the underwater shelf that stretched far from the island.
潛水員探索了那座島嶼外延伸出去的水下岩架。
collocation: underwater shelf
A narrow shelf on the cliff face held a cluster of pink flowers.
懸崖壁上一個狹窄的岩石平臺長著一叢粉紅色的小花。
The continental shelf around Taiwan is rich in marine life and fish.
台灣周圍的大陸棚富含海洋生物和魚類。
domain: geography
- continental shelf
- underwater shelf
- rock shelf
- shelf of rock
文法句型
a/the shelf
continental shelf
用法筆記
The term continental shelf refers to the shallow underwater edge of a continent, which is important in geography and law for defining territorial waters.
off the shelf
idiomDescribes a product that can be bought immediately without needing to be specially designed, made, or ordered.
現成的；不需訂做的
Instead of building custom software, the company bought an off-the-shelf solution.
Haruto chose an off-the-shelf accounting program because it was cheaper than a custom one.
You can buy off-the-shelf kitchen cabinets from most home improvement stores.
When a shop or manufacturer stops selling a product, usually because it is unsafe, unpopular, or recalled.
下架；停止販售
The store took the toy off the shelves after customers reported safety problems.
The supermarket removed all products containing that ingredient from its shelves.
The publisher agreed to take the book off the shelves and issue a corrected edition.
on the shelf
idiomNot being used or wanted by anyone anymore.
被擱置；無人問津
After the scandal, the actor's career was left on the shelf.
Maya found an old bicycle on the shelf in the garage.
To remove a product from stores so it is no longer available to buy.
將某物下架；停止銷售
The company had to take the toy off the market due to safety concerns.
Did the store take those expired medicines off the shelves?