喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a speaker who stops mid-sentence, holds the silence for a second, and then carries on. The stopping is temporary and the restart is already assumed — that is what separates a pause from an end. The button on a remote does exactly the same thing to a film.

可以想成：說話的人講到一半停下來，讓那個安靜維持一兩秒，然後接著講。這個停是暫時的，而且「等一下會再開始」已經包含在…更多收起可以想成：說話的人講到一半停下來，讓那個安靜維持一兩秒，然後接著講。這個停是暫時的，而且「等一下會再開始」已經包含在裡面了——這正是 pause 跟「結束」最大的差別。遙控器上的那個鍵，對電影做的也是同一件事。

From the picture

播放的暫停

把人停下來的動作交給機器：影片或音樂停在原地，位置留著，等你回來從同一點繼續。

pause (a recording) · verb · A2

to press a button so that music, a film, or a game stops for a short time and can start again from the same place.

按暫停

樂譜上的延長記號

音樂裡的「停」方向剛好相反：不是不出聲，而是把那個音撐住比原本更久——共通點在於，時間在那裡被拉住了。

pause (music mark) · noun · B2

a mark written above a note in music, telling you to hold that note longer than usual.

延長記號

Also in this word

pause (break off speaking) · verb · A2

To break off briefly from what you are saying or doing, then carry on.

停頓；停一下

pause (a gap) · noun · A2

A short gap in what someone is saying or doing, with more still to come.

停頓；短暫的停

原始詞典資料15 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。

Pausenoun

  • 1

    A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.

pauseverb/pɔːz/

  • 1

    To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.

  • 2

    To stop (an activity) for a while.

    • The general public could therefore have been forgiven for thinking that work on the new station had stopped. But pausing work on an active construction site of this size is not straightforward.
  • 3

    To interrupt an activity and wait.

    • When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
    • Tarry, pause a day or two.
  • 4

    To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

    • Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
  • 5

    To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.

    • to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
    • Press Start at any time to pause the game.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo consider; to reflect.

    • Take time to pause.

pausenoun/pɔːz/

  • 1

    A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

    • If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
  • 2

    A short time for relaxing and doing something else.

  • 3

    Hesitation; suspense; doubt.

    • to take pause
    • to give pause
  • 4

    In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.

    • Teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
  • 5

    A break or paragraph in writing.

    • He [Paul] is full of the Matter he treats and writes with Warmth, which uſually neglects Method, and thoſe Partitions and Pauſes which Men educated in the Schools of Rhetoricians uſually obſerve.
  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.

pauseintj/pɔːz/

  • 1

    slangUsed immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.

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。