英语词汇“out of mothballs”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. in mothballs: in a (usually prolonged) state or period of inactivity, disuse, reserve, storage, or postponement; (Military) in a prolonged state of removal from active service. Also out of mothballs: returned to use or service.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [adverb]

in mothballs1916

the mind > possession > supply > storage > in store [phrase] > as redundant

in mothballs1916

1904 Amer. Physician June 166/1 Beckwith did not envelope himself in mothballs and camphor-cloths nor lay himself on the shelf of oblivion in the bright little speech he made.]

1916 R. Lardner in Sat. Evening Post 19 Feb. 36 They put him in moth balls and they ask Joss to join their tong.

1946 Pop. Mech. Mar. 126/1 (heading) Ships in moth balls.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Jan. 1/1 The 45,000-ton New Jersey and Wisconsin had been put in ‘moth~balls’ January 1.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 1. 7/1 A..port improvement paid for by the MPA has remained in mothballs.., because no container ships have been scheduled to or from Boston.

1974 Guardian 31 Jan. 1/5 The distinguished BBC cheerfully took the most improbable creations [sc. films] out of mothballs.

1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 173 Snell had to order the recoilless rifles out of mothballs five weeks before Operation Just Cause, and only a few old lifer sergeants knew how to use them.

1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 10 Dec. a7/1 Most states have left the statutes in mothballs.

单词	out of mothballs
释义	> as lemmas out of mothballs 2. figurative. in mothballs: in a (usually prolonged) state or period of inactivity, disuse, reserve, storage, or postponement; (Military) in a prolonged state of removal from active service. Also out of mothballs: returned to use or service. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [adverb] in mothballs1916 the mind > possession > supply > storage > in store [phrase] > as redundant in mothballs1916 1904 Amer. Physician June 166/1 Beckwith did not envelope himself in mothballs and camphor-cloths nor lay himself on the shelf of oblivion in the bright little speech he made.] 1916 R. Lardner in Sat. Evening Post 19 Feb. 36 They put him in moth balls and they ask Joss to join their tong. 1946 Pop. Mech. Mar. 126/1 (heading) Ships in moth balls. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Jan. 1/1 The 45,000-ton New Jersey and Wisconsin had been put in ‘moth~balls’ January 1. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. 1. 7/1 A..port improvement paid for by the MPA has remained in mothballs.., because no container ships have been scheduled to or from Boston. 1974 Guardian 31 Jan. 1/5 The distinguished BBC cheerfully took the most improbable creations [sc. films] out of mothballs. 1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 173 Snell had to order the recoilless rifles out of mothballs five weeks before Operation Just Cause, and only a few old lifer sergeants knew how to use them. 1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 10 Dec. a7/1 Most states have left the statutes in mothballs. extracted from mothballn.adj. < as lemmas
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