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a [system] outage
可数名词；最常见的是 a power outage（停电），也可说 a network outage（网络中断）等。
A power outage left the whole street in darkness.
一次停电让整条街陷入黑暗。
停电；（服务等的）中断
outages — plural of outage
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停电；（服务等的）中断
Temporary suspension of a service, especially a power supply
A power outage left the whole street in darkness.
一次停电让整条街陷入黑暗。
操作暂时中断,尤指电力供应中断
A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
在储存或运输过程中损失的量。
The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.
The storm caused a power outage that lasted for three hours.
暴风雨导致停电持续了三个小时。
We experienced a water outage yesterday due to a broken pipe.
由于管道破裂，昨天我们遭遇了停水。
The company reported a gas outage affecting several neighborhoods.
该公司报告了一起影响多个社区的燃气中断。
可数名词；最常见的是 a power outage（停电），也可说 a network outage（网络中断）等。
A power outage left the whole street in darkness.
一次停电让整条街陷入黑暗。
用介词 in 引出中断发生的系统或地区，说明具体受影响的对象。
An outage in the cooling system forced us to stop production.
冷却系统发生中断，迫使我们停止生产。
此义侧重储存或运输中损失的量，常以百分比或数量表示。
An outage of 5% during storage was caused by evaporation.
储存过程中5%的损耗是由蒸发造成的。
Not this
There was outage in our area.
Use this
There was an outage in our area.
outage 是可数名词，表示一次具体的停电或服务中断，前面必须有不定冠词或限定词；“There was outage”缺少 an，因此不符合英语语法。
Not this
The network is outage.
Use this
The network is down.
outage 是名词，不能放在 be 动词后作表语形容词；描述网络或电力暂时中断、不可用的状态时，应用形容词 down（或 out/off），或改写为 There is an outage。
Not this
The outage of power lasted for five hours.
Use this
The power outage lasted for five hours.
英语中常用复合名词 power outage 表示停电，修饰语 power 要放在 outage 之前；“outage of power”是受中文“电力中断”语序影响而产生的表达，不符合英语习惯。
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停电
The storm caused a widespread power outage.
风暴导致了大范围停电。
服务中断
The company apologized for the service outage.
公司为服务中断道歉。
网络中断
A network outage affected thousands of users.
网络中断影响了数千用户。
计划停电
The planned outage will last from midnight to 6 a.m.
计划停电将从午夜持续到早上6点。
中断持续时间
The outage duration was shorter than expected.
中断持续时间比预期短。
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联想 out（出去）+ age（岁月）：停电时灯光全 out，黑暗像漫长的 age 一样难熬。
语域：neutral 常见场景：power supply、service disruption、news reports、storage/transport outage 通常用于中性偏正式场合，多指电力供应中断，也可指服务中断；在物流或储存语境中指损耗量。日常口语中较少单独使用。
out 与 outage 的前半部分发音相同（/aʊt/），但 out 没有 -age 结尾，因此不是完全押韵。所列 -age 结尾的词（message、village、image、storage、voyage）末尾的 -age 均读 /ɪdʒ/，与 outage 的结尾一致，但它们的重音元音不同，所以也不与 outage 押韵。真正的押韵词需要重读音节为 /aʊ/ 且后面接 /tɪdʒ/，非常罕见。
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