abeyance [
ə'beiəns]
n. 中止, 暂搁, 停止, 归属待定
[化] 潜态
[医] 停顿
[经] 中止, 暂搁, (所有权等的)未定
- "No imprisonment without trial" is a principle that goes into abeyance when the nation's security is in danger from terrorists.
当国家的安全受到恐怖分子的威胁时,"没有审判便没有监禁"这一原则也就停止不用了。 - The decision is in abeyance until the returns from holiday.
那项决议在他度假回来之前一直搁置着。 - The law is in abeyance.
此法暂缓执行.
abeyance[ noun ]
temporary cessation or suspension
<noun.state>
Abeyance \A*bey"ance\, n. [OF. abeance expectation, longing; a
(L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to
expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.]
1. (Law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an
inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be
in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law
considering it as always potentially existing, and
ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears.
--Blackstone.
2. Suspension; temporary suppression.
Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a
dormant state, or state of abeyance. --De Quincey.
- Before the vote, other senators had urged putting the third charge in abeyance while they vote on the first two, which allege that Mecham misused $80,000 from a protocol fund and obstructed and investigation of an alleged death threat by a staff member.
- Ballet at Covent Garden is, shockingly, in abeyance for a month; Sadler's Wells offers nothing.
- The panel's decision was held in abeyance pending today's action by the Supreme Court. The panel's ruling that the city elections system must change now will take effect.
- Included in the request is $3.6 million for arms and ammunition that would be held in abeyance until March 31.
- "This will sort of hold that in abeyance even if the felony convictions don't relate to activities in Arkansas, because (Drexel is) registered in the state and we don't look kindly on licensees having felony convictions."