关键词：On the shelf基本意思是“在搁板上”，引申含义为女子成为剩女。
短语释义：今天要给大家介绍的短语是on the shelf。Shelf是名词，表示“架子；搁板”，on the shelf基本意思是在搁板上。比如I like all the books on the shelf but this one is my favorite.我喜欢书架上所有的书，但这本是我最喜欢的。“I’m on the shelf”是一句很常见的口语表达。猜猜是什么意思呢？I’m on the shelf.中文里有句成语束之高阁，如果一个人也被“束之高阁“，就是指这个人嫁不出去了。If those women are on the shelf, they are not married and people now believe they are too old to get married. On the shelf可用来形容那些还没有结婚的女性，她们通常是因为年纪太大而被认为不容易嫁出去。

情景领悟：
1. Women used to think they were on the shelf at 30.
过去女人一到30岁就认为是过了结婚年龄。
2. I was afraid my daughter would never find a husband, that she'd be left on the shelf.
我担心我的女儿很难嫁出去，这样她就成了“剩女”了。
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