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Delay Moratorium Latin 10590.Moratorium 英 Mɒrə'Tɔːrɪəm]美 Mɔrə'Tɔrɪəm 释义

正面 10590.moratorium
英 [,mɒrə'tɔːrɪəm]美 [,mɔrə'tɔrɪəm]

背面
释义:
n. 暂停,中止;[金融] 延期偿付
例句:
1. The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.众议院投票表决将核试验暂停一年。

(谐音:O必死)(把身体吃成O形必死无疑)
moratorium 暂停,中止来自拉丁语morari,延迟,词源同demur.引申词义暂停,中止。
moratoriummoratorium: see demurmoratorium (n.)1875, originally a legal term for "authorization to a debtor to postpone payment," from neuter of Late Latin moratorius "tending to delay," from Latin morari "to delay," from mora "pause, delay," from PIE *mere- "to hinder, delay." The word didn't come out of italics until 1914. General sense of "a postponement, deliberate temporary suspension" is first recorded 1932. Related: Moratorial."

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