大家都搜：
v.长期关闭（工厂）；封存（机器设备等）；把（计划）束之高阁（mothball的现在分词）
1、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。
2、The mothballing of the Satsop nuclear project was such a debacle, the region's electric ratepayers are still paying for it.───萨特索普核电站的封存是一个大灾难，至今，该地区的电力用户们仍然在为此付出代价。
3、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。
4、Its investigators have so far issued seismic warnings against two nuclear power plants, which may lead to their permanent mothballing.───迄今为止，其调查人员已经对两个核电站发布了地震预警，这可能导致这两个核电站永久封存。
5、Many companies are mothballing mines and curtailing exploration to conserve cash as prices tumble.───由于价格暴跌，许多公司封存矿山、减少勘探以保存现金。
6、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。
7、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。