time out
- n. （篮球、美式足球、冰球等比赛中的）暂停，时间到；（从工作或某项活动中抽出的）暂停时间、休息时间，常作 take time out from something；（计算机、通信等系统中的）超时；（儿童管教，多用于美国）隔离反省时间。
- v. （计算机、通信等系统中的进程、请求或设备）因超过规定等待时间而自动中止或失效。
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
time out (also time-out)
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N-VAR In basketball, American football, ice hockey, and some other sports, when a team calls a time out, they call a stop to the game for a few minutes in order to rest and discuss how they are going to play. (篮球、足球、冰球等比赛中的) 暂停
例：With 22.2 seconds to go before halftime, Brown wanted to call a time- out.
距中场休息还有22.2秒时布朗想叫一次暂停。
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N-UNCOUNT If you take time out from a job or activity, you have a break from it and do something different instead. (工作或活动中的) 暂停时间; 休息 [oft N 'from' n, N to-inf]
例：He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
他暂停竞选活动陪她母亲吃晚饭。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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She is taking time out from her music career for a year.
她将抽出一年的时间，暂不从事音乐事业。
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You should spend more time out of doors in the fresh air.
你应多花点时间在户外呼吸新鲜空气。
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He took time out from campaigning to accompany his mother to dinner.
他暂停竞选活动陪她母亲吃晚饭。
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The nineteen fifty-nine album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album to sell more than one million copies.
VOA: special.2009.11.30
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So I think the comparable and parallel structure for the baby-sitting for the younger children is that adults need time out.
所以我认为与青少年的,临时保姆目标相对应的,是成年人需要腾出时间。
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Yeah, I'm like taking some time out to do a bit of work
是的，我喜欢暂时停下来去做点别的工作，
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