recess

n. 休息；休会；凹处

vt. 使凹进；把…放在隐蔽处

vi. 休息；休假

n.

休息；隐蔽处；（山脉，海岸等的）凹处；壁凹，壁龛

vt.

把某物放在凹处；制造凹陷；（暂时）休会，休课，休庭；

vi.

休息，休会，休庭；

变形

复数：recesses过去式：recessed过去分词：recessed现在分词：recessing第三人称单数：recesses

双语释义

[C][U](工作或业务活动的）中止或暂停期间 period of time when work or business is stopped

[C][U]学校的课间休息 break between classes at school

[C]壁凹；壁龛 space in a room where part of a wall is set back from the main part;alcove

[C]某物内部的凹形空间 hollow space inside sth

[P]遥远或隐秘的地方 remote or secret place

vt. 把某物放在墙壁的凹处 place (sth) in a recess

vt. 将(墙）做成凹形；在(墙）上做壁龛 set (a wall) back;provide (a wall) with recesses

vi. 休息；休会；休庭 take a recess

英英释义

recess[ ri'ses, 'ri:ses ]

n.

a state of abeyance or suspended business

同义词：deferral

a small concavity

同义词：recessionnichecorner

an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

同义词：inlet

an enclosure that is set back or indented

同义词：niche

a pause from doing something (as work)

同义词：respitebreaktime out

v.

put into a recess

"recess lights"

make a recess in

"recess the piece of wood"

close at the end of a session

同义词：adjournbreak up

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

介词+～

be in recess 在休会期间

in a mountain recess 在老山深处

in the innermost recess es of the heart在内心深处

～+介词

recess with a writing desk in it墙的凹处放着一张写字台

词组短语

at recess休息，在休息时间

in recess休息；暂停

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“中止，停止，休息”的意思，其区别是：

pause指短暂的中断或停止，含再进行下去的意味。

stop普通用词，指迅速或突然中止某行为、活动或状态。

break非正式用词，指突然的或短时间的中止，如工作或活动期间接短暂休息。

interval指一出戏在幕与幕之间，音乐会上下串场之间或演出中预先安排的休息；也可泛指事件之间的一段时间。

cease正式用词，侧重逐渐结呸某活动或状态，含永远结束的意味。

recess正式用词，指业务活动或工作中短暂的或长时间的休息。

rest指统称的休息。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

They have no recreation or recess in their work.
他们并没有休息或停工时间。

He approached imperceptibly the gloomy recess.
他不知不觉地走到了幽暗的山岔。

I push the problem down into the dim recess of my mind.
我把这个问题藏到内心深处，不去多想它。

The attic sloped down from the centre, and the trunk was lying in a far recess.
阁楼从中央倾斜而下，这个木箱正好放在远端的壁龛里。

Finally I had to get up near dawn to sleep on the ledge of the honor recess, where in Japanese living rooms the best vase and picture scroll are displayed.
末了，我不得不在凌晨起来，睡到壁龛里去，那本是日式房间摆放花瓶画轴的地方。

Have you any plans for the summer recess?
你暑假有什么打算吗?

用作动词(v.)

The conference will recess till tomorrow morning.
会议暂时休会，明天上午继续开会。

The committee is going into recess for a couple of weeks.
委员会打算休会几个星期。

权威例句

recess (n.)

1530s, "act of receding," from Latin recessus "a going back, retreat," from recessum, past participle of recedere "to recede" (see recede). Meaning "hidden or remote part" first recorded 1610s; that of "period of stopping from usual work" is from 1620s, probably from parliamentary notion of "recessing" into private chambers.

recess (v.)

1809, from recess (n.). Related: Recessed; recessing.

1. One day he called me into his room during the recess.

有一天，在课间休息的时候，他把我叫到他的办公室。

2. The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.

会议主席宣布休会10分钟。

《新英汉大辞典》

3. Congress heads into the Easter recess this week with one big piece of business – healthcare reform – largely out of the way.

当美国国会本周进入复活节休会期时，它的一项重头工作——医疗改革——已基本得到解决。

4. Apparently, during the holiday recess one of the students needs to volunteer his or her family to take care of it.

显然，假日休息的时候，其中的一名学生需要让他或她的家庭志愿照顾它。

5. She would humiliate her victims without mercy if, for instance, they wet their pants in class, as happened right before recess on the first day to the unprepared Tess Wodehouse.

她会毫不留情地羞辱她的受害者，比方说，当她们在课堂上尿裤子时。 上学第一天的休息时间前，这件事就发生在毫无准备的泰思?

6. With one of my children, the powerful girl in their group of four friends convinced the others--in second grade--to ditch my daughter at recess.

我的孩子就有一个。她们四个朋友的团体中的有感召力的女孩说服了其他人——在二年级——在课间孤立我女儿。

7. What’s curious is that while adults have no problem with counselors guiding children’s play at a summer camp, many feel that kids should be left to their own devices at recess.

让人难以理解的是，大人对于有指导老师带领孩子参加暑期夏令营没有什么问题，但是很多却认为孩子们在课间应该让他们自己玩。

8. Mrs Linton sat in a loose, white dress, with a light shawl over her shoulders, in the recess of the open window, as usual.

林惇夫人穿着一件宽大的白衣服，和往常一样，坐在一个敞开着窗子的凹处，肩上披着一条薄薄的肩巾。

9. In the face of this accumulated wisdom, the question is why so many educators across the nation have, in recent years, decided that it is acceptable to reduce or eliminate recess.

在这一几代人积累的智慧之前，问题来了，为什么全国这么多教育家近年来会认为说减少或者消除课间休息是可以接受的呢？

10. According to the disciplinary referral, she would be separated from other students during lunch and recess through Friday.

根据规定，她在惩罚期间不能和其他同学一起吃中饭，休息时间也要一个人呆着。

11. Much of the movement has focused on the educational value of play, and efforts to restore recess and unstructured playtime to early childhood and elementary school curriculums.

这场运动开始主要是以指出玩的教育价值为主，并努力重建孩子在童年时期和小学课程中应有的休息和自由玩闹时间。

12. It was a recess appointment, one a President can make for a year, when Congress is not in session.

这是一项休会期的任命，因为国会正在休会期，而总统每年只能进行一次这样的任命。

13. Rep. Howard Berman took advantage of the two-week recess in Congress to hold a field hearing on copyright in the digital age on his home turf in Van Nuys, Calif.

国会议员霍华德伯曼利用国会两星期休会的空档在他家乡加州范奈司区举行了一个关于数字时代版权保护的现场听证会。

14. They came back from recess bearing the signs of their abuse— black eyes and bloody noses, the red welt of tears—but I neglected to come to their rescue, although perhaps I should have.

他们休息回来时带着受虐的痕迹——乌青的眼睛、充血的鼻子、撕划的红痕——但我熟视无睹，不想去拯救他们，虽然也许这是我应该做的。

15. The House is in recess this week, and Republican leaders say they do not plan to call representatives to Washington from their home districts.

众议院这星期休会，共和党领袖们说，他们没计划请议员从各自的选区回到华盛顿来。

16. Although I could run for a touchdown, Brittany was always the first girl picked in flag football at recess and I was lucky if I was picked at all.

虽然我可以持球触地得分，然而在课间的夺旗橄榄球比赛中，布里塔尼却总是第一个被挑中上场的球员，而我若能被选中，就算我的运气。

17. Researchers say that one of the best predictors of whether kids feel happy in school is whether they feel comfortable and competent during recess.

研究人员说要看孩子在学校快不快乐一个最佳的方法就是看他们在课间休息的时候是否感到自在和愉快。

18. The kids will be in a coed environment for homeroom, lunch, and recess, then divide up for four hours each day to learn their math, science, reading and social studies.

集合，午餐，和课间休息时，孩子们会是男女同校的环境。然后，男生女生每天会被分开四个小时去学习数学，科学，阅读以及社会学科。

19. When my children were 6 and 8, taking tests was as much a part of the rhythm of their school day as tag at recess or listening to stories at circle time.

我们的两个孩子在6岁和8岁的时候，参加考试是学校生活的一部分，就像课间玩捉人游戏或每天听故事一样平常。

20. In any event, Congress will recess next week until after the elections.

不管怎样，国会下周要休假直到选举结束。

21. In any event, Congress will recess next week until after the elections.

不管怎样，国会下周要休假直到选举结束。