mothballs

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。

But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.

但是美国载人航天飞行现已搁置，而且在这些委靡的时期，连游客对大坝的骄傲也参杂着哀思。

With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.

随着冷战的结束,有几艘军舰被封存。

You can put that idea into mothballs and forget it.

你可以摈弃那种想法并把它忘掉.

He keep his car in mothballs during the winter.

在冬天,他把汽车搁置不用.

MOST recession-blighted manufacturers worry that their next order is likely to be for mothballs.

受经济萧条的影响,大多数饱受打击的制造商们都在担心下一张订单是不是又要缩水了.

De Beers mothballs mines as diamond sales slide.

全球钻石巨擘戴比尔斯'封矿'.

The breeze smelled exactly like Vouvray-flowery , with a hint of mothballs underneath ( Anne Tyler )

清风中散发着一种花香般的完全象法国白葡萄酒的气味,其中还夹杂着一股樟脑球的香味 ( 安妮泰勒 )

They had been salted away in mothballs.

它们被用盐腌制,封存起来.

He opened the door. There were the coats hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs, and darkness and silence, and no sign of Lucy.

他拉开橱门，里边像平常一样挂着外套，还有樟脑丸的气味，黑糊糊，静悄悄的，不见露茜的人影。