suspense
suspense 英 [səˈspens] 美 [səˈspɛns]
n. 悬念；担心；悬而不决
名词复数:suspenses
- Suspense is a feeling of excited waiting. If you have been waiting for weeks to get an answer to your proposal of marriage, you are being kept in suspense.
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- n. 悬念；担心；悬而不决
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1. a tale of mystery and suspense
一个神秘莫测、充满悬念的故事
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2. Don't keep us in suspense.Tell us what happened!
别让我们心老悬着了，告诉我们出了什么事！
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3. I couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.
这样提心吊胆，我一刻也受不了了。
- suspense (n.) c. 1400, "abeyance, temporary cessation; state of not being carried out" (of legal matters), from Anglo-French suspens (in en suspens "in abeyance," c. 1300), Old French sospense "delay, deferment (of judgement), act of suspending," from Latin suspensus, past participle of suspendere "to hang up; interrupt" (see suspend). Meaning "state of mental uncertainty with more or less anxiety" (mid-15c.) is from legal meaning, perhaps via notion of "awaiting an expected decision," or from "state of having the mind or thoughts suspended." As a genre of novels, stories, etc., attested from 1951.
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