英语词汇“mothball”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词	mothball
释义	mothball I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun Etymology: moth (I) + ball 1. : a ball of the size of a marble made formerly of camphor but now of naphthalene and used to keep moths from clothing 2. mothballs plural : the condition of being put into protective storage or relegated to a reserve, standby, or caretaker status < the warships in mothballs at the Puget Sound Naval shipyard — New York Times > < a million-dollar aluminum powder plant … is being taken out of mothballs Monday — Wall Street Journal > < then the war ended and mothballs took over — E.L.Beach > also : a state of having been rejected for further use or dismissed from further consideration < you can put that idea into mothballs and forget it > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) : to inactivate and preserve (as a ship) chiefly by dehumidification < plastic … is sprayed over the gun mount of a ship being mothballed — All Hands > < our sick bay had been mothballed — J.J.Micka > < the packing plant mothballed for five years — Newsweek > III. adjective : preserved, inactivated < mothball ships >
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