单词 | to put to a pause |
释义 | > as lemmasto put to a pause P1. to take pause: to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought. to give (a) pause (usually with to or indirect object): to cause to stop or hesitate, esp. for further or more careful thought; to cause to doubt; frequently in to give (also leave, take, etc.) pause for thought. Also †to put to a pause (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > cease from temporarily [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease temporarily suspendc1290 pausea1542 intermit1557 to give (a) pause1566 intercidea1641 interpolatea1676 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall l.415 Leege prynce, take pause a space, and then, my pore demaunde assoyle. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 70 For in that sleepe of death what dreames may come..Must giue vs pause [1623 pawse] . View more context for this quotation 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 203 These Considerations really put me to a Pause. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 102 When the slow dial gave a pause to care. 1821 Lady B. Dacre Pedrarias iv. iii. 185 Oh, that Time wore the driving Tempest's wing, Whose headlong sweep might leave no pause for thought. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 271 One of those profound reflections that give one pause in studying these fine pictures of human nature. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xii. 155 Placing a comma between each word, as if to give pause while that word was driven well home to the reader's heart. 1936 A. Tate Reactionary Ess. 180 Yet the very idea ‘America’ must give us pause, for it is almost anything that a determined apologist may wish to represent. 1961 R. Gittings Coll. Poems (1976) 49 It is better To be a wise servant than a brilliant master, And to give a pause to those whom competence blinds. 1987 E. North Worldly Goods (1988) viii. 86 Perhaps..the very act of approaching the vicarage together could be in itself enough to give them pause for thought. 1998 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. b4 We've come to a crossroads where we need to take pause and look at the direction we're headed. < as lemmas |
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