PAUSE

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pause I. substantiv

1. pauză; întrerupere; oprire; interval; răstimp;

to make a pause a face (o) pauză;

to give pause to smb. a face pe cineva să şovăie / să ezite; a-i tăia cuiva avântul / elanul.

2. (metr.) pauză, cezură.

3. (muz.) pauză;

to make a pause on a note a ţine o notă.

4. (teatru) pauză, antract.

5. (poligr.) semn de suspensiune, liniuţă.

pause II. verb intranzitiv

1. a face o pauză, a zăbovi, a se opri un moment;

to pause at every shop-window a zăbovi pe la toate vitrinele;

to pause on a word a zăbovi asupra unui cuvânt.

2. a şovăi, a ezita, a avea ezitări / şovăieli.

He still waited; he held a key in his hand: approaching one of the small, black doors, he put it in the lock; he paused, and addressed me again.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I paused and listened, but there was nothing more.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paused to gaze at the squat moose-hide sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

She paused a moment in breathless wonder.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

The mother's sufferings, the father's; there she paused.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Something of this change in him must have reached her, for she paused from her reading, looked up at him, and smiled.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“How do you do, Miss Brewster,” he said suddenly, after a pause.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He paused and looked at her.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“A sister of yours, Mr. Copperfield?” she cried, after a pause, and still keeping the same look-out.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)