suspend: [13] To suspend something is etymologically to ‘hang it up’. The word comes via Old French suspendre from Latin suspendere ‘hang up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘up from under’, hence ‘up’, and pendere ‘hang’ (source of English depend, pendent, etc). The metaphorical sense ‘delay’ developed in Latin. => depend, pendant, pendulum
suspend (v.)
c. 1300, "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege;" also "to set aside (a law, etc.), to cause to cease for a time," from Old French sospendre "remove from office; hang up" (12c.), or directly from Latin suspendere "to hang up, kill by hanging; make uncertain, render doubtful; stay, stop, interrupt, set aside temporarily," from assimilated form of sub "up from under" (see sub-) + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). In English, the literal sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Related: Suspended; suspending.
雙語例句
1. Ministers took the floor to denounce the decision to suspend constitutional rule.
幾位部長發言譴責暫停憲制的決定。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Both sides in the conflict have agreed temporarily to suspend hostilities.
沖突雙方同意暫時停火.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. We had no alternative but halt [ suspend ] the project at the time.
當時不下馬不行.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. He was compelled by illness to suspend his experiment.