pause: translation
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I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ brief, momentary, short, slight, small
▪ lengthy, long
▪ frequent
▪ He made frequent pauses to catch his breath.
▪ awkward, uncomfortable
▪ pregnant
▪ dramatic
▪ thoughtful
▪ silent
VERB + PAUSE
▪ take
▪ Shall we take a pause here?
PAUSE + VERB
▪ follow
▪ In the pause that followed, I noticed that he was shaking.
PAUSE + NOUN
▪ button (on a video camera, etc.)
PREPOSITION
▪ after a/the pause
▪ ‘I don't know,’ he said after a long pause.
▪ in a/the pause
▪ Everyone nodded in agreement in the pauses between his sentences.
▪ with a/ the pause
▪ He read very slowly and with frequent pauses.
▪ without a/the pause
▪ She read the whole text without a pause.
▪ pause before
▪ There was a long pause before he spoke again.
▪ pause between
▪ in the pauses between his jokes
▪ pause for
▪ pause in
▪ during a pause in the conversation
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II.•/Roman•
verb
ADVERB
▪ briefly, (for) a moment, momentarily, (for) a second
▪ She paused a moment and then walked away.
▪ mid-sentence, mid-stride
▪ She paused mid-stride when the doorbell rang.
▪ occasionally
▪ She paused occasionally to smell the flowers.
▪ barely, hardly
▪ He spoke for two hours and barely paused for breath.
▪ deliberately
▪ She paused deliberately, her eyes holding his.
▪ dramatically, meaningfully
▪ expectantly
▪ reflectively, thoughtfully
▪ uncertainly
▪ awkwardly, uncomfortably
PHRASES
▪ pause for breath, pause for thought
▪ pause only long enough to do sth, pause only to do sth
▪ Pausing only to put out her cigarette, she left the room.
▪ pause to consider, look, reflect, etc.
▪ Just pause to think before giving me your answer.
▪ without pausing
▪ Without pausing to knock, she opened the door.
Pause is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cassette, ↑movie, ↑tape