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| Processed by: | kbaiko (2026-08-13 01:58:46 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 88864 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> I think I got this wrong. I think 闲置 is fundamentally transitive in meaning, as suggested by the character 置, which is transitive "put" rather than intransitive "lie". Dictionaries define 闲置 in transitive terms: HDC 空放着；搁在一边不用 LA 放着不使用 M 闲放在一旁 K "to leave idle; to set aside" And if I had looked a little harder, I would have found clear transitive usage like: 为什么有些人买了房子以后，却把它闲置了？ 当时正值金融危机，外贸不景气，他闲置了不少资金。 家里有空气炸锅的别再让他闲置了。 我爸送了我一幢大别墅，我嫌他太豪华，会影响我简约朴素的校园女神人设。去过一次就把他闲置了。 这台“爱妻牌”洗衣机虽然被闲置了，但它却成为了我们爱情的见证。 But I think the great majority of usage would be rendered in English with an intransitive phrase like "lie idle", so, like NA, whose definition is "to leave unused; let sth lie idle; (of sth) gather dust", I am proposing to retain "to lie idle", even though I don't think it would be wrong to leave it out. |
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- 閒置 闲置 [[xian2zhi4]] /to be left unused; to lie idle/ + 閒置 闲置 [[xian2zhi4]] /to leave unused; to leave idle; to lie idle/ |