suspend

1 “You need to go back inside or Coach will suspend you for leaving before the team talk.”

2 The man in black grabbed hold, hung suspended alone in space.

3 She stared at Papi, not at me, her needle suspended above green fabric.

4 Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds.

5 “And I’m suspended for the rest of the week. Hopefully that will give everyone at school enough time to forget and let this whole thing blow over.”

6 A hundred feet ahead, under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, a row of chain-link cages hung suspended from cables.

7 He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.

8 But since the Rafah operation began, many such centers have closed, while new ones slated to open in northern Gaza have been suspended, the United Nations said.

9 I was a Hollows Facebook phenomenon for a week until Mrs. Marks, our assistant principal, said anybody caught circulating the video would be suspended.

10 In the afternoon she packed the fish traps with dried meat and suspended them from the overhanging branch.

11 The machine was heavy, maybe eighty pounds, and was suspended from the ceiling by a thick rubber cord.

12 An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house.

13 In fact, all the girls looked kind of on suspend.

14 He cried and ran to Marshall and I got suspended for that one, and then Janine liked me again.

15 The bully never got in trouble himself, but he got tons of other kids suspended.

16 “Social isolation? Hostile atmosphere? Are you saying that Julian was the only kid who wasn’t nice to this boy? Or are you suspending every kid who stuck his tongue out at this kid?”

17 It was as if we were suspended in time and space, a little like a dream.

18 The litter was suspended between eight mammoth draft horses on heavy leather straps.

19 If a huge skull and crossbones were suspended above the insecticide department the customer might at least enter it with the respect normally accorded death-dealing materials.

20 Slowly, carefully, the boys approached the scene of suspended destruction, where things that were crushed, thrown, or knocked over took their sweet time hitting the ground.

1 停学

suspension rustication

2 搁置

aside suspension stay table postpone shelve sidetrack pigeonhole lay on the table

3 挂

wear fly string sling hang

4 垂

impend drop

5 悬空

free poised pendent superincumbent

6 飘浮

gossamery afloat waft wafture float

7 延长

extension continuation augmentation elongation protraction extend prolong elongate protract

8 暂时停职

suspension

9 吊

hang draw string sling dink lift winch

10 停止

stop standstill suspensory off stay cut stand rest halt dwell cessation rundown stoppage shutoff discontinuance stopping cutoff letup arrestation pass quit depart cease stint remit conk surcease stash can drop fold abandon terminate discontinue chuck it pack it up pick up marbles lay an embargo on whoa arrest suspension silence breakdown interruption hitch barley blackout suspense abeyance ceasing leave hold fall scratch toss pause stall slack staunch desist call secure cheese waive stow embargo foreclose belay breakup pull-up dis-

11 悬浮

suspension hang poise suspended hover levitation levitate

12 暂时停赛

suspension

13 悬吊

hanging

14 暂缓执行

respite stay

15 无力支付

failure

16 延缓

retardant stay stick postpone suspension wait table delay waive moratorium reprieve defer stave off put back

17 暂停

bar hold rest stick pause interrupt time-out respite lull moratorium truce cree surcease lift recess idling hold it check suspension halt intermission breathing-space stop wait time break interval suspense intermit pretermit let-up timeout recessional suspensive spell cessation abeyance selah be in abeyance stay adjourn outspan give a rest interruption lapse lacuna mothball hang discontinue stand-down rain out

18 保留

saving reserved reservation retention keep hold save reserve retain withhold set by leave on laid up but qualification suspension keeping salvo reticence abeyance stet reticency preserve

19 悬挂

floating suspensory hanging ride hang swing float impend fly drape suspended sling underslung display string pendent depend dangle suspension suspense carry placard

20 暂时停止

intermit hold in abeyance leave in abeyance respite

21 使停职

furlough

22 中止

dormant suspensory suspensive break seize-up stop stay hang pause scrub stint cessation respite suspense stoppage moratorium intermission shutoff discontinuance stopping caesura letup cesser jam-up nonintercourse halt drop determine lapse abort abate desist nol-pros call chop discontinue intercept sever adjourn pretermit put the mocker on turn from stopped aborted suspensively interruptedly suspension truce discontinuation abeyance cease close the books fall into abeyance be in abeyance arrest cancellation abandonment rest abandon give up take off end close kill interrupt seize up get given the chop suspenseful intermit disengage shut-off

23 暂缓

stay abeyance reserve put in respite suspension respite stall

24 暂时停学

suspension

25 使中止

abort

26 漂浮

afloat adrift flotation float

27 延期

deferred stay extension respite continuance deferment postponement adjournment put-off continue delay postpone defer leave over lay on the table lay upon the table lay over rollover procrastinate stand over

28 延迟

delay keep postpone defer adjourn debilitate

29 吊起

hoist raise hang hook swing trice hoise aweigh string up lifting sling

30 停止支付

suspension

31 延留

suspension

32 使飘浮

float waft

33 开除

excommunicative expulsive dismissal expulsion heave-ho can drop separate bounce pill dismiss sack expel excommunicate unfrock kiss off

34 中断

gappy break relay breakdown cease interrupt interruption stint lapse punctuation abort blip intermission discontinuity discontinuance cutoff caesura saltus hold stop fail surcease intermit cut drop abandon discontinue pretermit tune off bring up short

35 使中断

bring up short

36 悬

hang suspension impend swing

37 悬而未决

undisposed pend hold in abeyance suspensive suspense

38 使悬浮

poise levitate

39 停职

suspension furlough

40 悬而不决

suspension hang hang in the air

41 推迟

stay wait retard cool reserve stall scrub defer delay postponement hold deferment leave postpone mothball leave over push back move back stave off sidetrack remit shunt adjourn can wait put over suspension park on hold put off hold off put back set back hold over

42 使悬而不决

hang