Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #9517
recess
休息；暂停；休会
A short period of rest or pause from work, business, or school activities.
- 1.
A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
下陷、中空或凹进的空间；亦指孔洞或开口。
- 2.
a state of abeyance or suspended business
暂停或中止的状态
- 3.
A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
某个地方隐蔽的、最深处或难以到达之处。
- 4.
a small concavity
小凹陷
- 5.
A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
活动的暂时停止；休息、暂停。
- 6.
an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
从大水体延伸出的水湾(通常在岩石岬角之间)
- 7.
An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
一个总体呈凹形、折返的部分,属于弯曲的褶皱冲断带、冲断席或单一冲断层的一部分,由以下一种或多种因素造成:造山运动期间地层和地质构造的变形(褶皱和断层)、造山运动期间临界楔角的差异,或现今地貌面的侵蚀程度不同。
- 8.
An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
腔的延伸或突出(如关节隐窝、腹膜隐窝等)
凹处；凹陷；壁龛；隐秘处；幽深之处；水湾；海湾；湖湾；构造凹槽；凹入段；隐窝；腔部凹陷
In use
After two hours of class, the students were eager for recess.
The judge called for a short recess to review the evidence.
The children played on the swings during morning recess.
in recess
表示休会或休息状态。
The court is in recess until next week.
法庭休庭到下周。
take a recess
常用于会议或课堂。
Let's take a recess for lunch.
我们休息一下吃午饭吧。
a recess in sth
表示物理凹陷。
There is a small recess in the wall.
墙上有一个小凹处。
Connections
Collocations
- school recess
- 学校课间休息
- The children played on the playground during school recess.孩子们在学校课间休息时在操场上玩。
- in recess
- 休会中；休庭中
- Parliament is in recess for the summer.议会夏季休会。
- recess appointment
- 休会任命
- The president made a recess appointment while the Senate was away.参议院休会期间，总统进行了休会任命。
- the recesses of
- ……的深处；……的幽深处
- He explored the recesses of his mind for creative ideas.他探索自己思维的深处寻找创意。
- a recess in the wall
- 墙上的凹处；壁龛
- The statue was placed in a recess in the wall.雕像被放在墙上的凹处。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
学校课间休息叫 recess，也指墙壁凹进去的壁龛——休息时躲在凹处。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：school breaks、court or congressional sessions、architecture and anatomy descriptions recess 作名词时，表示“课间休息/休会”多用于学校、法庭或议会等场景，语气较中性；表示“凹处/壁龛”时常见于建筑、解剖等描述，较正式。具体语气需根据语境判断。
Grammar Note
注意：'recess' 作为名词时为可数名词。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词与 recess /rɪˈsɛs/ 押韵，因为重读音节都以 /ɛs/ 结尾（dress 和 stress 是单音节 /ɛs/）。注意形似词 access /ˈækses/ 和 process /ˈprəʊses/ 虽也以 -ess 拼写，但重音在第一个音节，所以不与 recess 押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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