把活動或身分「吊起來」——暫停
抽象的吊：一件在進行的事、或一個人的權利，被抬離地面暫時停住，懸在那裡等著，之後多半還會放回來。
temporary stop · noun · B2
a time when something is officially stopped for a while, and may start again later
暫停 / 中止
核心畫面
Picture something lifted off the ground and left hanging in mid-air — not dropped, not set back down, just held. 'Suspension' is that state of being held up and held off.
可以想成一樣東西被抬離地面、吊在半空——沒有落下，也沒有放回原位，就這樣被撐著、懸著。suspension 講的就是…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西被抬離地面、吊在半空——沒有落下，也沒有放回原位，就這樣被撐著、懸著。suspension 講的就是這種「被吊起來、暫時卡住」的狀態。From the word’s history
From Latin suspendere 'to hang up', from sub 'up from under' + pendere 'to hang'. Every branch keeps the literal hanging: an activity hung up in the air, a person's rights hung up, a car body hung on springs, solid bits hung in a liquid.
源自拉丁文 suspendere「吊起來」，由 sub「從下往上」加 pendere「懸掛」組成。四個用法都還留著「吊」這個動作：活動被吊在空中、身分被吊著、車身吊在彈簧上、固體顆粒吊在液體裡。
etymonline.com/word/suspension (Latin suspendere 'to hang up', sub + pendere 'to hang')
Two branches
物理上真的「吊著／懸浮」
回到最字面的吊：東西真的被撐在半空或浮在液體中，靠什麼吊著、不落到底。
vehicle suspension · noun · B1
the parts joined to a vehicle's wheels that soak up bumps so the ride feels smoother
懸吊系統 / 避震
原始詞典資料12 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。
suspensionnoun/səˈspɛnʃən/
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- suspension from a hook
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A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- Fear of dioxin emissions led to suspension of efforts to establish a waste-to-energy plant at the Brooklyn Navy yard.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- As the solids clump together, they get heavier causing them to fall out of suspension in the water.
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Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
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The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
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The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
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educationThe process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- suspension from school as a disciplinary measure
- […] Donna Thomas, John Tiedeman, David Jones, and Richard Williams, all students in the Granville Junior-Senior High School, conceived a plan in November 1978 to produce a satirical publication addressed to the school community. […] [Assistant Principal Frederick] Reed summoned Tiedeman and discussed with him the “dangers” of publishing material that might offend or hurt others. Specifically, he told Tiedeman that a similar publication several years before had culminated in the suspension of the students involved.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- As in Sequenza IV, the suspension of the chord creates several different layers of activity, which can be understood by looking at the right hand’s chord in bar two.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
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mathematicssciencestopologyA topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- To get an intuitive feeling for the characteristics of H'-spaces, it is instructive to consider an important class of such spaces, the suspensions. The suspension of an arbitrary topological space Y is defined to be the quotient space of Y#92;timesI where Y#92;times 0 is identified to one point and Y#92;times 1 is identified to another point. For example, the suspension of a circle is a cylinder with the two ends collapsed into one point each; in other words, a space homeomorphic to a sphere.
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mathematicssciencestopologyA function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- A model category is called pointed if the initial object and terminal object are the same. The homotopy category of any pointed model category acquires a suspension functor denoted by #92;Sigma. It turns out that #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) is a pre-triangulated category in a natural way[…]. When the suspension is an equivalence, M is called a stable model category, and in this case #92;text#123;Ho#125;(M) becomes a triangulated category[…].
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transportvehiclesThe system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- If you drive over a speed bump, the left and right tires push the suspension upward at the same time.
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。