shelf

英 [?elf] 美[??lf]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中低頻詞核心詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?shelves;

shelf 架子，擱架，大陸架

來(lái)自古英語(yǔ) scylfe,架子，擱架，船板，甲板，來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*skelf,分開，切開，來(lái)自 PIE*skel,切，分，詞源同 scale,shell.引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

shelf: shelf: [14] Shelf appears to have been borrowed from Middle Low German schelf ‘shelf’. This may have come from the Germanic base *skelf- ‘split’, which also produced Old English scylfe ‘partition’, the word’s underlying meaning therefore being a ‘piece of split wood used for standing things on’. The derivative shelve dates from the 16th century.
shelf (n.): late 14c., from Middle Low German schelf "shelf, set of shelves," or from Old English cognate scylfe, which perhaps meant "shelf, ledge, floor," and scylf "peak, pinnacle," from Proto-Germanic *skelf- "split," possibly from the notion of a split piece of wood (compare Old Norse skj?lf "bench"), from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave" (see scale (n.1)).

Shelf life first recorded 1927. Phrase on the shelf "out of the way, inactive" is attested from 1570s; of unmarried women with no prospects from 1839. Off the shelf "ready-made" is from 1936. Meaning "ledge of rock" is from 1809, perhaps from or influenced by shelf (n.2). Related: Shelves.
shelf (n.2): "sandbank," 1540s, of unknown origin. Related: Shelfy "abounding in sandbanks."

2. She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.: 她不小心把架子上的茶葉罐碰了下來(lái)。

3. He's useless at DIY. He won'teven put up a shelf.: 他自己動(dòng)手能力太差，甚至連搭個(gè)架子都不會(huì)。

5. He reached for a tin of tobacco on the shelf behind him.: 他伸手去夠身后架子上的一罐煙葉。