Abeyance

(noun.) temporary cessation or suspension.

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• Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Constitution was therefore in abeyance for the time being, so far as it in any way affected the progress and termination of the war. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You have put many things in abeyance to win a war. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Under such circumstances Mr. Raffles's pleasure in annoying his company was kept in abeyance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At length he determined to leave the matter in abeyance for the present, and reverted to the question of Helena. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• While these affairs were in abeyance, our visit to Mr. Boythorn's was postponed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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