gather dust

gather dust

美 　英

• 網絡積灰；積灰塵；因太久沒使用而生灰塵

英漢解釋

na.	1. to not be used or touched by anyone for a long time

例句

Corail camp resident Molane Montinor, 59, seems to gather dust as she walks with a blanket and plastic-covered tarp over her head.

Corail營駐地MolaneMontinor，59，似乎聚集了灰塵，因為她在她的頭上毯子和塑料篷布覆蓋各行各業。

But whether the Berlin framework will gather dust or be a useful document will depend on the effectiveness of the next steps.

但是柏林框架將被長期擱置還是成為一個有用的文件，這將取決于未來舉措的有效性。

The problem for companies is working out which of these products will become a hit and which will gather dust on a shelf.

廠家的真正難題是判斷：哪些產品將火爆，哪些產品將積壓。

Meanwhile, their parents' electric carving knives, electric woks, and electric casserole warmers gather dust.

與此同時，他們父母的電切肉刀、電鐵鍋、電蒸鍋正落滿了塵土。

It is not a book that you pick up, read from cover to cover, and then put on a shelf to gather dust.

它并不是一本適合隨便拾起，翻翻之后便擱置在書架上聚集灰塵的書。

A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body.

沒有多久，我的渴望將為另一個人而聚滿灰塵與泡沫。

This makes them difficult for some people to read, and often, the classics are left to gather dust on shelves.

這使一些人閱讀起來有困難，經典文學作品常常被遺忘在書架上塵封。

In the end, psychology left most of the volumes on happiness and the good life with philosophy, which dutifully left them to gather dust.

最后，心理學把大部分關于快樂和美好生活的書都留給了哲學，哲學則理所當然地任憑那些書落滿了灰塵。

Various proposals to fix the deficit look set to gather dust (see article).

各種解決赤字問題的提案看上去將束之高閣。

Kenyans were not really waiting for yet another nice report to gather dust on the shelves.

肯亞民眾實在不需要等待另一份漂亮的報告放在書架上積灰塵。

They gather dust and take up space. They also lose and acquire meaning over time.

它們積累了灰塵，占用了空間，也會隨著時間增長而消于無形，由此獲得了存在的意義。

Some bikes never get much riding. Mostly they gather dust.

一些自行車都沒騎多少次，大部分時間都放在那里吸塵。

Various proposals to fix the deficit look set to gather dust.

試圖解決財政赤字的各種建議注定要石沉大海。

I wash the leaves because they tend to gather dust.

我為他們清洗葉子，因為他們好像會積灰。

Encyclopedias gather dust as research moves online

調研轉入網上，百科全書灰塵日積

Encyclopedias Gather Dust in Internet Age

百科全書在互聯網時代受冷落

And gather dust and chaff, and call

摸索著搜集灰塵和糠秕，