英语释义

1. a ball made formerly of camphor but now often of naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene and used to keep moths from clothing

2. a condition of protective storage
put the ships in mothballs after the war also a state of having been rejected for further use or dismissed from further consideration

3. to deactivate (something, such as a ship) and prevent deterioration chiefly by dehumidification

4. to withdraw from use or service and keep in reserve put aside

5. a small ball that contains a strong-smelling chemical and that is used to keep moths away from stored clothing

6. to stop using (something) while keeping it to be possibly used in the future

片语

mothballing of refinery石油加工厂的保养

embalm铭记于心；使不朽；防腐；使充满香气

mothballing option暂停期权

mothballing them脱下它们

antisepticize杀菌，防腐

Mothballing Options暂停期权

英汉例句

• Across the world carmakers are mothballing factories and dropping shifts.

  全世界的汽车工厂都面临停产或减产。

• This paper provides synthesizer「s heat exchanger area design method of additive mothballing wall temperature bondage condition in analysed corrosion mechanism of hydrogen chloride synthesizer.

  文章在分析水夹套式氯化氢合成炉腐蚀机理基础上提出防腐壁温约束条件的合成炉换热面积设计方法。

• Developers are frantically scaling back projects, or even mothballing them.

  开发商大幅减少开工项目，甚至暂停在建工程。

• Miners of these metals daily face crises similar to Camec」s and mothballing mines around the world to save cash as they wait for a price recovery.

  开采上述金属矿的生产商每天所面对的危机与中非矿业类似，为了等待价格回升，它们也得封存遍布全球的矿产以节省现金支出。

• Consumers are hoarding their cash, companies are mothballing investment plans.

  消费者将他们的钱储蓄起来，公司也将其投资计划予以搁置。

• As well as pruning workforces, many manufacturing, metals and mining companies are idling some factories and mothballing others.

  除了裁员，很多制造公司、金属公司以及矿业公司还暂时停止了一些工厂的运转并且关闭了部分工厂。