同义词： camphor ball
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N-COUNT A mothball is a small ball made of a special chemical, which you can put among clothes or blankets in order to keep moths away. 樟脑丸; 卫生球
V-T If someone in authority mothballs a plan, factory, or piece of equipment, they decide to stop developing or using it, perhaps temporarily. 把...束之高阁; 暂停 [journalism]
...the decision to mothball the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, for safety and political reasons.
...出于安全和政治原因，暂时关闭巴丹半岛核电厂的决定。
The original proposal had been mothballed years ago.
最初的建议几年前就束之高阁了。
Existing fossil fuel stations are "mothballed" for use only as a last resort.
现有的矿物燃料发电站被“封存”，仅在万不得已时使用。
Most commentators believed that the supply crunch would ease once new (or mothballed) rare-earth mines are opened.
多数时事评论家认为，一旦一座新的稀土矿被开采之后，供给困境就会有所缓解。
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