英语词汇“mothballing”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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Instead of investing, companies are mothballing machines because, despite the initial signs of recovery at the end of 2009, demand is lacking.
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Secondly, a system of mothballing relief for business premises only partly used during the recession should be introduced.
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There is excellent potential for developing alternative employment, but that will be prevented if campaign operation status leads to the mothballing of the site.
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Mothballing relief would breach the fundamental principle that the use of part of a hereditament constitutes occupation of the whole.
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Mothballing relief, for example, would pave the way for arguments about what constitutes occupation for other classes of ratepayers, notably the domestic.
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Mothballing is not a term that is recognised.
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It will also mean the mothballing of the training school and no replacement of any personnel or vehicles.
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Today's mothballing could be the death knell of the whole plant within three years.
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I shall hazard a guess about what mothballing means.
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In my area, a health authority and a trust are mothballing provision in the public sector for long-term care of the elderly confused.
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It is difficult to envisage the mothballing of manufacturing industry.
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We have overcapacity and the mothballing of stations.
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To sum up, it may be that a strong case for mothballing relief can be argued for particular firms.
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There is no disarmament in that instance, simply some mothballing or some provisional unscrewing.
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Examples of mothballing