abeyance

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishabeyancea‧bey‧ance /əˈbeɪəns/ noun → in abeyanceExamples from the Corpusabeyance• Theoretically, she can dissolve Parliament without advice, but the right has been in abeyance for years.• The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.• Like a stranger in a strange land, he travelled with his other life in abeyance.• For some time thereafter matters of defence, policy and filial duties were in abeyance.• In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.• The following year Civil War was declared, and drainage works fell into abeyance.Origin abeyance (1500-1600) Old French abeance “expectation”, from abaer “to desire”, from baer; → ABASHED

单词	abeyance
释义	abeyance From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishabeyancea‧bey‧ance /əˈbeɪəns/ noun → in abeyanceExamples from the Corpusabeyance• Theoretically, she can dissolve Parliament without advice, but the right has been in abeyance for years.• The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.• Like a stranger in a strange land, he travelled with his other life in abeyance.• For some time thereafter matters of defence, policy and filial duties were in abeyance.• In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.• The following year Civil War was declared, and drainage works fell into abeyance.Origin abeyance (1500-1600) Old French abeance “expectation”, from abaer “to desire”, from baer; → ABASHED
随便看	slow moving etc slow off the mark slow on the uptake slow pitch slow puncture slow somebody/something ↔ down slow to do slow to do something slow up slow witted slow-pitch slow-witted slow/lengthy/laborious etc process slowcoach slowdown slower slowest slowflation slowly slowly but surely slowpitch slowpoke slowwitted sluagh sluagh ghairm