time out

英 [taɪm aʊt]

美 [taɪm aʊt]

n.  (英国)《暂停》周刊

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牛津词典

• 以上各词均表示短暂的休息。
  These are all words for a short period of time spent relaxing.
• 指间歇、休息：
  a short period of time when you stop what you are doing and rest or eat
  1. Let's take a break .
     咱们休息一会儿吧。
• 指休息时间、睡眠时间：
  a period of relaxing, sleeping or doing nothing after a period of activity
  1. We stopped for a well-earned rest.
     我们停下来作个应有的休息。
• 指活动进行中的短暂休息：
  ( informal ) a short pause in an activity to rest or relax
  1. a five-minute breather
     五分钟的休息
• 指脑力或体力活动期间的短暂休息、喘息时间：
  a short pause in the middle of a period of mental or physical effort
  1. This delay gives the party a breathing space in which to sort out its policies.
     这一延误使该党有了喘息之机来厘定其政策。
• 指从困境或不愉快、不舒适的状态中得到的暂缓、暂停：
  a short break from sth difficult or unpleasant
  1. The drug brought a brief respite from the pain.
     药物暂时缓解了疼痛。
• 指暂停工作或学习的时间：
  ( informal , especially NAmE ) time for resting or relaxing away from your usual work or studies
  1. Take time out to relax by the pool.
     去游泳池边歇一歇吧。

柯林斯词典

• (篮球、美式橄榄球、冰球等比赛过程中的)暂停
  In basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team calls atime out, they call a stop to the game for a few minutes in order to rest and discuss how they are going to play.
• N-UNCOUNT (工作或活动中的)暂停时间，休息时间
  If you taketime out froma job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead.
  1. He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
     他从竞选活动中挤出一点时间陪母亲吃饭。
  2. …women returning to the labour market after time out to raise young families.
     为抚养年幼子女暂停工作后又重返劳动力市场的女性

英英释义

noun

• a pause from doing something (as work)
  1. we took a 10-minute break
  2. he took time out to recuperate
  Synonym:respiterecessbreak

双语例句

• It says for it to comment on the local killings would be inappropriate at this time out of respect for the families, the community and the ongoing police investigation.
  它说，这时候它对的当地杀评论是不合适的。因为对于家庭的尊重，社区和警察对此进行了调查。
• He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
  他从竞选活动中挤出一点时间陪母亲吃饭。
• A gap year is constructive time out-it can be anywhere, anytime, doing anything.
  间隔年，是一个很有建设性意义的旅行休息。你可以在任何的时候，前往任何地方，去做任何你想做的事。
• If the condition persists, the queued work and dispatched work begin to time out and fail.
  如果此情况持续很久，队列中的工作和已派发的工作将超时并失败。
• Take time out once in a while to smile at the company you built from nothing but an idea.
  偶尔抽出时间笑着看看自己由一个想法建立的公司。
• But if request processing takes some time, then the transport that the client used might time out.
  但是如果请求处理要花一些时间，则客户机使用的传输可能超时。
• But there does seem to be pervasive resentment of those who take time out to get a degree.
  但是现在对拿出时间去攻读学位的人似乎存在普遍的不满情绪。
• I urge you to take time out from your daily work, as I did, to look at some of the greatest achievements of the past.
  我强烈建议您腾出一些时间暂时脱离您的日常工作，就像我一样，去看一看一些先人们所取得的伟大成就。
• Take time out to ask yourself open questions about a goal such as, What do I really want?
  她说，花点时间，问问自己有关职业目标的问题，例如，我真正想要的是什么？
• These delays also caused some of the transport mechanisms to time out.
  这些延迟还导致某些传输机制超时。