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单词 abeyance
释义
abeyance
noun[U]
formal
uk
/əˈbeɪ.əns/us
/əˈbeɪ.əns/
astateof nothappeningor being used atpresent:
搁置；暂时中止；暂缓
Hostilities between the twogroupshave beeninabeyance since lastJune.自去年6月份以来，双方一直处于休战状态。
Theprojectis beingheldinabeyance untilagreementisreachedonfundingit.在达成融资协议前，该项目被暂时搁置。
Synonyms
dormancy
latency(NOT YET ACTIVE)formal
suspension(STOP)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Pauses & interludes
  • adjournment
  • break
  • break-journey
  • caesura
  • coffee break
  • comfort break
  • hiatus
  • interlude
  • intermission
  • interval
  • lapse
  • lull
  • moratorium
  • one-stop
  • pause
  • plateau
  • postponement
  • respite
  • smoko
  • suspension
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(Definition ofabeyancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabeyance

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After some initial success the drainage commissioners found themselves immersed in legal wranglings with landowners and maintenance of the drainage system largely fell intoabeyance.
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The tradition of multi-media spectaculars fell intoabeyancetowards the end of the century.
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Carruthers appears to suspect this, and he asks the reader to hold inabeyanceany sentiments against the assumption.
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At various points along the way, the methods have been employed together or one type of method has been hegemonic and the other inabeyance.
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As moots fell into desuetude, the inns' educative function also fell intoabeyance.
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If it was inabeyance, how could it be recovered?
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Rationalist scepticism is held inabeyance, yet complete belief is undercut by an ironic awareness that one is holding scepticism at bay.
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Above all this meant keeping animal propensities inabeyance.
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Hence, the conservative preference for labour market employment over public assistance was held inabeyanceby the economic realities of the period.
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In biographic terms, the house is invariably 'finished' and occupied; only rarely is it analysed while under construction or, even less frequently, in a state ofabeyanceor dilapidation.
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It seems odd to suggest that the compositional semantic interpretation most naturally associated with an expression should be held inabeyancefor an indeterminate period, only to emerge later.
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The transfer of power and high politics of partition overwhelmed provincial politics, and those politicians who were unable to swim with the tide were forced intoabeyance.
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This led to an 'abeyance' of the state, which, she rightly points out, is not the same as its destruction, though she does also use the term 'fracturing'.
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The sensibility necessary for this involves an immediacy with the given, a holding inabeyanceof all waking state presuppositions - those reactions that are not inherent to the required knowledge.
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We have peerages inabeyancenow, do we not?
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