adjourn
adjourn 英 [əˈdʒɜ:n] 美 [əˈdʒɜrn]
v. 休会；延期
进行时:adjourning 过去式:adjourned 过去分词:adjourned 第三人称单数:adjourns 名词复数:adjourns
- To adjourn is to close a session of something, like at court. People also adjourn when they go to bed.
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- v. 休会；延期
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1. The court adjourned for lunch.
午餐时间法庭休庭。
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2. The trial has been adjourned until next week.
审判延期至下周。
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3. The judge granted us a short adjournment.
法官允许我们暂时休庭。
- adjourn (v.) mid-14c., ajournen, "assign a day, fix a day" (for convening or reconvening of an organized body), from Old French ajorner (12c.) "meet" (at an appointed time), from the phrase à jorn "to another day, to a (stated) day," from à "to" (see ad-) + journ "day," from Latin diurnus "daily," from dies "day," from PIE root *dyeu- "to shine."
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