| 正面 | 12395.suspense 英 [sə'spens]美 [sə'spɛns]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、arc- + -ade.n. 悬念；悬疑；焦虑；悬而不决 例句： 1. "Go on, don't leave us in suspense," Dennis said.丹尼斯说：“接着说，别吊我们胃口了。” suspense 悬念，焦虑suspend,悬，挂，吊，-s,过去分词格。引申词义悬念，焦虑等。 suspense (n.)c. 1400, "abeyance, temporary cessation; state of not being carried out" (of legal matters), from Anglo-French suspens (in en suspens "in abeyance," c. 1300), Old French sospense "delay, deferment (of judgement), act of suspending," from Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere "to hang up; interrupt" (see suspend). Meaning "state of mental uncertainty with more or less anxiety" (mid-15c.) is from legal meaning, perhaps via notion of "awaiting an expected decision," or from "state of having the mind or thoughts suspended." As a genre of novels, stories, etc., attested from 1951." |