recess

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

1. [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
2. [C][U]学校的课间休息 break between classes at school
3. [C]壁凹；壁龛 space in a room where part of a wall is set back from the main part;alcove
4. [C]某物内部的凹形空间 hollow space inside sth
5. [P]遥远或隐秘的地方 remote or secret place

1. vt. 把某物放在墙壁的凹处 place (sth) in a recess
2. vt. 将(墙）做成凹形；在(墙）上做壁龛 set (a wall) back;provide (a wall) with recesses
3. vi. 休息；休会；休庭 take a recess

• 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

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

at recess休息，在休息时间

in recess休息；暂停

1. They have no recreation or recess in their work.
   他们并没有休息或停工时间。
2. He approached imperceptibly the gloomy recess.
   他不知不觉地走到了幽暗的山岔。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Have you any plans for the summer recess?
   你暑假有什么打算吗?

1. The conference will recess till tomorrow morning.
   会议暂时休会，明天上午继续开会。
2. The committee is going into recess for a couple of weeks.
   委员会打算休会几个星期。