动 stop，cease，rest，cast off one's wife and send her home；副 （别； 莫） don't；名 good fortune，a surname ；

[例句] 休尖叫起来，声音不大，吃惊多于恐惧。 Sue screamed, not loudly, more in surprise than terror.

[例句] 休和约翰对于获得这个奖项感到兴奋不已。 Sue and John were especially thrilled with this award.

have a rest，take a rest，rest，break，recess ；

[例句] 邦伯里重重地倒在了床上，让他疲惫的双脚休息一下。 Bunbury flopped down upon the bed and rested his tired feet.

[例句] 就在中场休息前，该守门员由于肋骨受伤被用担架抬下场。 The goalkeeper was stretchered off just before half-time with a rib injury.

recuperate，convalesce，recreation，relax，relaxation；

[例句] 我去了乡下休养。 I went away to the country to recuperate.

[例句] 手术后她正在家休养康复。 She is convalescing at home after her operation.

retire，hang up one's spikes ；

[例句] 坎贝尔公司的总裁退休后，麦戈文被选定为继任者。 When the chairman of Campbell's retired, McGovern was named as his successor.

[例句] 无后顾之忧而能提早退休当是件幸事。 It would be nice to be able to afford to retire earlier.

stop，[生理] diapause，cease，caesura，truce ；

[例句] 我整天无休止地编织缝纫。 I had endless hours to knit and sew.

[例句] 那是场无休止的战争。 The war was endless.

[医] shock ；

[例句] 他在受着毒品毒副作用影响的同时还出现了休克。 He was suffering from shock as well as the after-effects of drugs.

[例句] 他们逃离了火海，却因休克而被迅速送往医院。 They escaped the blaze but were rushed to hospital suffering from shock.

truce，cease-fire，cessation of hostilities，armistice，make peace with ；

[例句] 这也许会火上浇油，破坏当前脆弱不稳的休战局面。 This may help to undermine the brittle truce that currently exists.

[例句] 双方宣布休战，以免更多的流血。 The two sides called a truce to avoid further bloodshed.

adjourn，adjournment，prorogation，rise ；

[例句] 国会在结束夏季休会后今天开始恢复工作。 Parliament returns to work today after its summer recess.

[例句] 听证会现已休会就餐。 The hearings have now recessed for dinner.

（不停止） endlessly，ceaselessly ；

[例句] 她被媒体和公众纠缠不休。 She was besieged by the press and the public.

[例句] 他们总是争吵不休。 They rowed all the time.

fallow，fallow land ；

[例句] 那个地方以温泉 [ 作为温泉休闲地 ] 闻名. The place is celebrated for its hot springs [ as a hot spring resort ].

[例句] 那农民把他的奶牛放在休闲地里. The farmer kept his cows in a fallow field.

[律] adjourn ；

[例句] “现在休庭10分钟。”法官敲了一记木槌说道。 "Let's take a ten-minute recess", the judge said, pounding his gavel.

[例句] 法庭决定休庭4个月。 The court ordered a four month adjournment.

anteroom，crush-room，[法] day room，drawing room，foyer ；

[例句] 安妮离开阿蒂，沿着走廊朝休息室走去。 Anne left Artie and walked down the corridor towards the foyer.

[例句] 我们吃过后，就在休息室里睡下了。 When we had eaten, we dossed down in the lounge.

a day off，playday，[法] rest day，day-off，off day ；

[例句] 我为了这温室示踪气体已经牺牲了我的休息日. I've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.

[例句] 你是否愿意接受雇主所安排的休息日? Are you willing if you day off set by your employer?

lounge hall ；

[例句] 上星期一我在一家旅馆的休息厅见到他. I met him in a hotel lobby last Monday.

[例句] 斯考比很快地走回休息厅. Scobie walked rapidly back into the lounge.

[地名][美国] Houston，[人名]Houston（如:美国乐坛巨星惠特妮·休斯顿Whitney Houston）；

[例句] 那个来自休斯顿的人由于他的身份, 坐在唯一的一张椅子里. The Houston man, because of his status, had the solitary chair.

[例句] 休斯顿的梅杰斯书店是首家提供随选书籍的零售商之一. Majors bookstore in Houston was among the first retailers to offer books on demand.

casual，leisure；

[例句] 带上休闲的衣服。 Bring informal casual wear.

[例句] 这是假日休闲的惟一去处. It was the only place for off - duty relaxation.

[医] dormant，resting ；

[例句] 这是大自然休眠的季节. This is the season in which Nature recuperates.

[例句] 研究了不同浓度外源脱落酸 ( ABA ) 对洋葱 鳞茎 休眠的影响. Effects of abscisic acid ( ABA ) treatment on onion ( Allium cepa ) dormancy were studied.

silent，[医] dormant，caesural ；

[例句] 那是场无休止的战争。 The war was endless.

[例句] 她无休止的唠叨抱怨逼得他离家出走了。 Her endless nagging drove him away from home.

Hoghes ；

[例句] 休斯示意他在沙发上坐下。 Hughes beckoned him to sit down on the sofa.

[例句] 休斯示意他坐在沙发上。 Hughes beckoned him to sit down on a sofa.

名 [人名] Huet，t ；

[例句] 那不是杰克·休伊特想要的生活，绝对不是！ That was not the life Jack Hewitt planned to live. No way!

[例句] 帕特里夏·休伊特很了解如何做到有条不紊。 Patricia Hewitt knows a thing or two about how to be well-organised.