| 词汇 | abeyance |
| 释义 | abeyance noun[ U ] formaluk /əˈbeɪ.əns/ us /əˈbeɪ.əns/ a state of not happening or being used at present: 搁置;暂时中止;暂缓 Any proposed abeyance of the bylaws must be approved by the entire committee. in abeyance Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.自去年6月份以来，双方一直处于休战状态。 be held in abeyanceThe project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.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) Pauses & interludes adjournment asynchronously break break-journey caesura coffee break hiatus hold something in abeyance in abeyance interlude intermission interval lapse non-continuous one-stop pause plateau postponement respite suspension Examples of abeyanceabeyance After some initial success the drainage commissioners found themselves immersed in legal wranglings with landowners and maintenance of the drainage system largely fell into abeyance. The tradition of multi-media spectaculars fell into abeyance towards the end of the century. Carruthers appears to suspect this, and he asks the reader to hold in abeyance any sentiments against the assumption. At various points along the way, the methods have been employed together or one type of method has been hegemonic and the other in abeyance. As moots fell into desuetude, the inns' educative function also fell into abeyance. If it was in abeyance, how could it be recovered? Rationalist scepticism is held in abeyance, yet complete belief is undercut by an ironic awareness that one is holding scepticism at bay. Above all this meant keeping animal propensities in abeyance. Hence, the conservative preference for labour market employment over public assistance was held in abeyance by the economic realities of the period. 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 of abeyance or dilapidation. It seems odd to suggest that the compositional semantic interpretation most naturally associated with an expression should be held in abeyance for an indeterminate period, only to emerge later. 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 into abeyance. 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'. The sensibility necessary for this involves an immediacy with the given, a holding in abeyance of all waking state presuppositions - those reactions that are not inherent to the required knowledge. We have peerages in abeyance now, do we not? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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