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- a temporary stop in action or speech暂停, 中止; 停顿：
she dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain
当雨暂停时, 她停车让我出去
mass noun the admiral chattered away without pause.这个海军上将喋喋不休地说个不停。
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- Music a mark() over a note or rest that is to be lengthened by an unspecified amount【乐】延长符号。
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- （亦作pause button）a control allowing the temporary interruption of an electronic (or mechanical) process, especially video or audio-tape recording or reproduction（尤指录像或磁带录制、复制过程中的）暂停键。
no obj.
1- interrupt action or speech briefly中止, 暂停, 停顿：
she paused, at a loss for words.
她停住了, 不知说啥好。
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- with obj. temporarily interrupt the operation of (a video or audio tape or computer program)使（录像带、录音带或计算机程序）暂停：
she had paused a tape on the VCR.
她暂停了一下播放中的录像带。
短语
give pause to someone（或give pause for thought）
- cause someone to think carefully or hesitate before doing something使踌躇, 使犹豫：
the sight of these gives any wouldbe attacker pause for thought.
看到这些情况, 每个可能的攻击者都会踌躇不前。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pausa, from Greek pausis, from pausein 'to stop'.