单词 | at a pause |
释义 | > as lemmasat (also in) a pause P2. at (also in) pause: temporarily inactive or motionless; not proceeding; hesitating, in suspense. Also (now more usually) at (also in) a pause. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily inactive [phrase] at (also in) pause1604 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iii. 42 I stand in pause where I shall first beginne. View more context for this quotation ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses viii. 120 All the other Youth that stood at pause, With deafning shouts, gaue them the great applause. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 8. ⁋7 The Air was hushed, the Multitude attentive, and all Nature in a Pause. 1719 C. Cibber Ximena ii. 19 The Shrieks of drowning Honour call! 'Tis sinking, gasping, while I stand in Pause. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 139 The disease Seems at a pause. 1823 M. R. Mitford Julian iv. ii. 55 The mortal sense, at pause 'Twixt life and death, doth drink in a faint echo Of heavenly harpings. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. iv. i. 10 When I am now called upon to give a definition of this idea, I find myself at a pause. 1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) ix. 189 Looking upon ye nearer, I stand in pause A pause of earnest doubt. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxx. 115 This unsophisticated girl, with..the suspended attitude of a friendly leopard at pause. 1923 J. Masefield Poems (1946) 615 On the tower-top..they set at pause The golden wind-vane. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. a20 The American space program is in a pause while awaiting perfection for manned orbital flight of the massive space shuttle. 2003 Irish News (Nexis) 13 Mar. 44 My..career's at a pause at the minute. < as lemmas |
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