| 单词 | suspense |
| 释义 | suspense (once / 619 pages) n Suspense is a feeling of excited waiting. If you have been waiting for weeks to get an answer to your proposal of marriage, you are being kept in suspense. The verb form, suspend, literally means to keep hanging. Suspense can be used in all sorts of ways. Movies that keep you on the edge of your seat in fear use suspense to draw you in. Suspense doesn’t always have to be scary, but it is usually agitating. If you are in suspense, you’re waiting on something that you really have to know. WORD FAMILYsuspense: suspenseful, suspenses+/suspenseful: suspensefully USAGE EXAMPLES“But I’m agog at how little he cares about storytelling conventions, like suspense and reveals. He’s ultimately more experimental than I am.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Dividing stories into units of time, into hours and days, is a familiar structuring device, sometimes used for suspense or to create a countdown. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Elsewhere, time hurtles ahead: unpredictable harmonic schemes generate suspense at every turn of this most familiar of stories. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1n an uncertain cognitive state the matter remained in suspense for several years Hyper doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty the state of being unsure of something 2n excited anticipation of an approaching climax the play kept the audience in suspense Hyper anticipation, expectancy an expectation 3n apprehension about what is going to happen Hyper apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread fearful expectation or anticipation |
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