Hiatus
[haɪ'eɪtəs] or [haɪ'etəs]
解釋/意思:
(pl. ) of Hiatus
(n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
(n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.
錄入:内丽
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Opening, gap, break, interval, chasm.
费利西亚編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a gap: an opening: a chasm: a break in continuity a defect: (gram.) a concurrence of vowel sounds in two successive syllables.
手打:帕特丽夏
例句/造句/用法:
- She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Paul was used to--and of which he could follow the meanderings and fill the hiatus, and pardon the strange stammeringsstrange to him no longer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There were still hiatuses for her in Mrs. Struthers's past. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
整理:凯蒂