pauses

英 [ˈpɔːzɪz]

美 [ˈpɔːzɪz]

v.  暂停; 停顿; (按暂停键)暂停放音，暂停放像
n.  停顿; 停顿的时间; 延长记号; 暂停键
pause的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 停顿；暂停
  If youpausewhile you are doing something, you stop for a short period and then continue.
  1. 'It's rather embarrassing,' he began, and paused...
     “非常令人难堪，”他开口道，然后停顿了一下。
  2. He had to pause to clear his throat...
     他不得不停顿一下清清嗓子。
  3. He worked steadily, and fast, pausing only to toss away clumps of grass roots...
     他平稳快速地工作着，只在扔掉草根块儿时停顿一下。
  4. On leaving, she paused for a moment at the door...
     离开时，她在门口停顿了一下。
  5. He talked for two hours without pausing for breath.
     他一连说了两个小时，都没有停顿一下喘口气。
• N-COUNT 停顿；暂停
  Apauseis a short period when you stop doing something before continuing.
  1. After a pause Alex said sharply: 'I'm sorry if I've upset you'...
     歇了一会儿后，亚历克斯毫不客气地说：“要是让你心烦了，那我很抱歉。”
  2. There was a pause while the barmaid set down two plates in front of us.
     酒吧女招待在我们面前摆放两个盘子时停顿了一下。
• PHRASE 使认真考虑；使犹豫
  If somethinggivesyoupause for thought, it makes you think carefully about something, especially in a different way than you have thought about it before.
  1. An opposition spokesman said he hoped the agreement would give them pause for thought about the futility of violence.
     反对派发言人说他希望协议能够让他们仔细想想暴力行为毫无意义。

双语例句

• Bob Hausler, Plano's mayor, reads the notice aloud and then pauses.
  普莱诺市长鲍勃豪斯勒（BobHausler）大声读出公告上的内容，然后停顿了片刻。
• Don't make the pauses between exhaling and inhaling too long
  不要与呼出和吸入太长暂停
• Salty tears round down her cheeks into her mouth and she pauses to tastes them before looking more distraught.
  咸咸的泪珠从她的脸颊上滚落到她的嘴里，她似乎尝了一下泪水的味道，然后看起来更悲伤了。
• The furrowed brow and the pauses are killing me.
  你的皱眉和这沉默真让我难受。
• A familiar problem that this causes is the pauses that occur during Garbage Collection ( GC).
  这导致的一个问题就是在垃圾收集（GC）时所产生的停顿现象。
• Use Paragraphs: No one likes to read writing that never pauses for a line break.
  使用段落：没有人喜欢读一个行不行之间从不停顿的作品。
• On modern JVMs these pauses will not be noticeable for well tuned desktop applications.
  现在的JVM中，由于已经对桌面应用程序进行了高度调优，这些暂停都不易察觉到。
• They are momentary pauses on the path to success!
  他们只是你通往成功路上的暂时的休止符。
• Faster collections mean shorter pauses, and thus better application responsiveness.
  收集更快意味着暂停时间更短，因此应用程序响应性也更好。
• For each of these STW pauses, Metronome uses the cooperative suspend mechanism in the J9 virtual machine.
  对于每个这样的STW暂停，Metronome在J9虚拟机中使用协作暂停机制。