| 英语单词 | hiatus |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [haɪ'eɪtəs] 美 [haɪ'eɪtəs] |
| 中文释义 | n.裂缝;分裂;间断;停顿 |
| 英语例句 | (1) My marriage is not ending. It's just on hiatus. (2) We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years. (3) After a five-month hiatus, the talks resumed. (4) The travel show was on hiatus during coverage of Wimbledon. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我的婚姻还没完,只是有点裂缝。 (2) 我们在分裂二十多年后又新生了友谊。 (3) 谈判在中断了五个月之后又开始了。 (4) 该旅游节目因为转播温布顿网球赛而暂停播出。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A temporary gap, pause, break, or absence can be called a hiatus. When your favorite TV show is on hiatus, that means there are no new episodes — not forever, just for a little while. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Even things that go on for a long time take a break once in a while: one kind of break is a hiatus. If someone has to leave her job for a time, she's going on hiatus. A touring band will need to take a hiatus if the lead singer gets in an accident. The key thing about a hiatus is that it's an interruption of something that was happening, but it's not a permanent break. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-SING 单数名词]间歇;间断;空隙;缺漏 A hiatus is a pause in which nothing happens, or a gap where something is missing. [usu with supp] [FORMAL 正式]
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