Pause
[pɔːz] or [pɔz]
解释:
(noun.) temporary inactivity.
(noun.) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
(verb.) cease an action temporarily; 'We pause for station identification'; 'let's break for lunch'.
埃罗尔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
(n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
(n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
(n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
(n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
(n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
(n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
(n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.
(n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
(n.) To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
(v. t.) To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.
贝蒂整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Stop, cessation, suspension, interruption, rest, halt, intermission, remission, stoppage, stopping, break, CÆSURA.[2]. Point, punctuation mark.
v. n. [1]. Stop, cease, desist, wait, delay, rest, breathe, stay, break off.[2]. Hesitate, demur, deliberate, waver.
柏格编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist
ANT:Continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere
SYN:Stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest
ANT:Continuance, advancement, perseverance
凯西整理
解释:
n. a ceasing: a temporary stop: cessation caused by doubt: suspense: a mark for suspending the voice: (mus.) a mark showing continuance of a note or rest.—v.i. to make a pause.—adjs. Paus′al; Pause′less.—adv. Pause′lessly.—n. Paus′er one who pauses or deliberates.—adv. Paus′ingly with pauses: by breaks: deliberately.
尤金伲亚整理
例句:
- At length, after a short pause, Miss Crawford began with, So you are to be a clergyman, Mr. Bertram. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Yet one sound made them pause. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Another pause therefore of many minutes' duration, succeeded this speech, and Lucy was still the first to end it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Again he was silent, and after a pause turned to me laughingly. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Caliphronas, as I have told you, is a scamp, and will pause at nothing to gratify his own desire. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I advanced; then paused by the crib side: my hand was on the curtain, but I preferred speaking before I withdrew it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Mr. Pickwick paused, and looked steadily on Mr. Winkle, who quailed beneath his leader's searching glance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He paused for a few seconds, and added in a voice broken by emotion, 'You have loved her from a child, my friend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She paused for this announcement to produce its effect. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- She paused, and went on, dropping her glance from Lily's: He wouldn't stay with her ten minutes if he KNEW---- Knew----? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He had the faith of the one, the doubt of the other, and, drawn strongly either way by these opposing forces, paused irresolutely between the two. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- What now, after pausing a momentyour poor sister is gone to her own room, I suppose, to moan by herself. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Of course he will,' said Mr. Jingle pausing--'outrageous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The pausing in a fight to bow when bouquets are thrown to him is also in bad taste. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I understood it was another name,' said Mr Boffin, pausing, 'but you know best. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Caroline, without pausing, trod forward on the trembling plank as if it were a continuation of the firm turf. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To-morrow evening, replied Crispin, pausing at the door of the cabin. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Sir Leicester pauses, stares, repeats in a killing voice, The young man of the name of Guppy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The visitor pauses a moment to give my Lady an opportunity, but she says nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In one of those pauses she recoiled and cried out, for she saw a figure standing in the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- He pauses, but she makes no reply. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: What is this? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Luckily, the beadwork parrot could not talk, but its creator could, and did, with as few pauses as possible. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
吉米编辑