Pause

(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'.

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• 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.

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