Adjourn
[ ə'dʒɝn ]
第2级
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vt.& vi. （使）休会，（使）休庭;
💡 词根助记
ad增加+journ日期→延期 → 延期；体会
📝 例句
The motion to adjourn was carried.
休会的提议通过了.
🌱 联想助记
【记】ad-广告,journ-journal杂志:广告中止了杂志的连惯性
✅ 同义词
🔤 词根
-journ-表示“日”
📖 牛津释义
adjourn
v
1
(a) [Tn usu passive 通常用於被动语态]
stop (a meeting, etc) for a time; postpone 停止（会议等）一段时间; 休（会）; 使延期
The trial was adjourned for a week/until the following week. 审讯暂停一星期[下星期继续进行].
(b) [I] (of people at a meeting, in court, etc) stop proceedings and separate （指会议, 法庭等的人）休会, 休庭
The court will adjourn for lunch. 法庭午餐时间休庭.
Let's adjourn until tomorrow. 咱们休会, 明天继续进行.
2 [Ipr] ~to... (of people who have come together) go to another place （指聚集的人）到另一处去
After dinner we all adjourned to the lounge. 饭後我们都到休息室去了. > adjournment n [C, U]
The judge granted us a short adjournment. 法官准予我们短期休庭.
🔁 扩展释义
*[ә'dʒә:n]vi. 休会, 换地方vt. 使中止, 推迟【法】 中止, 延期, 休会
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Even his way of walking down the street and turning a corner could be recognized as his own.
就连他在街上走路和他转过拐角的那姿式都可以看出是他自己独有的。
There was a big civil rights march through the centre of Birmingham yesterday.
昨天大规模的民权示威游行经过伯明翰市中心。
I haven't told you that my family made a lot of money in the nineteenth century by making children work 16 hours a day in their factories.
我还没有告诉过你，我的家在19世纪的时候赚了一大笔钱，是强迫儿童在工厂里一天劳动16个小时赚来的。