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An intermission is a short break in the middle of a play, a concert, a long film, or a show. The lights come up, people stand, buy a drink, stretch, then go back for the rest. Though actually, British speakers often say interval for that same theatre break; intermission is the word you will hear more from American films and posters. It is not lunchtime at school, and it is not the days between two different events — just the pause inside one performance. Some films have no intermission now; older long films often did.
中場休息
組成From Latin intermissiō, from intermittō (“to interrupt, to leave a gap”) + the noun ending -tiō. English borrowed the finished noun.
同家族的字
- intermittentsame Latin intermittō — stopping for a while, then going on
- intermittentlythe adverb from that same family
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
intermissionnoun/ɪntɚˈmɪʃən/
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A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
- We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
- The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。