mothballs

过去分词：

动词过去分词: mothballed

更多词形：

动词过去式: mothballed | 动词过去分词: mothballed | 动词现在分词: mothballing | 动词第三人称单数: mothballs |

单词例句：

The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs for years in dead old Uncle Henry's steamer trunk.

厚厚的黑色羊绒柔软而蓬松，这件双排扣暗钮长大衣显然还没上过身，看样子，就像用樟脑球在老亨利叔叔的扁平旅行箱里保存了多年。

in mothballs

收存起来, 封存中, 退役

You can put that idea into mothballs and forget it.

你可以摈弃那种想法并把它忘掉。

The thick black wool looked soft and shaggy.It seemed apparently not to be worn yet.Just as if it had been preserved in mothballs for years in the flat trunk of old uncle Henry.

厚厚的黑色羊绒柔软而蓬松，这件双排扣暗钮长大衣显然还没上过身，看样子，就像用樟脑球在老亨利叔叔的扁平旅行箱里保存了多年。

The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs for years in dear old Uncle Henry’s steamer trunk.

这件双排扣大衣的厚厚的黑色毛呢软软的，蛮新的，就好像在亨利老爹的轮船衣箱里的樟脑球中保存了多年似的。

put the battleship into mothballs.

把战船封存保管

The very first Mini to come off the production line in 1959 is now a museum piece but it has come out of mothballs to make a special appearance on the programme.

最早一部迷你车于1959年生产，现正于博物馆内展出，它亦会于节目中出现。除此之外，节目中亦罕有地带观众参观迷你车的生产线，这条生产线已有四十年历史。

out of mothballs

被启封使用

Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.

你亲戚家都散发着烧香或樟脑丸或者两者混合的味道。