詞彙精選：recess的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
英[rɪˈsɛs]; [ˈriːsɛs]；美[ˈrisɛs]
休息 [U]
例句：
They have no recreation or recess in their work.
他們並沒有休息或停工時間。
例句：
Our school has two hour's recess at noon.
我們學校中午有兩個小時的休息時間。
壁龕 [C[
例句：
There's a small recess opening off a larger room.
有個遠離大房間的小的壁龕。
例句：
Is there a recess in your room?
你房間裏有壁龕嗎？
隱蔽處；深處 [U]
例句：
From the innermost recess of the church the bell tolled for repentance.
從教堂的深處傳來了一陣鐘聲，要人們懺悔。
例句：
I put the problem down into the dim recess of my mind.
我把這個問題藏到內心深處。
凹處 [U,C]
例句：
Please place the shopping bags in the recess or hung high.
請將購物袋放置於凹處或者掛在高處。
例句：
In a recess in the rocky cliffs behind the cataract is a cave.
大瀑布後面巖壁上，凹處有一洞。
v.
英[rɪˈsɛs]；美[rɪˈsɛs]
使凹進；把...放在隱蔽處 [T]
例句：
The workers recessed a portion of the wall.
工人們使牆的一部分凹進去。
例句：
Horizontal intermediate cross rails, which are required for locks, will be recessed and concealed.
水平過渡交叉擋板應扣住，凹入並隱藏。
休息；休課；休假；休會；休庭 [I,T]
例句：
The conference will recess till tomorrow morning.
會議暫時休會，明天上午繼續開會。
例句：
The committee is going into recess for a couple of weeks.
委員會打算休會幾個星期。
二、詞義辨析：
break,rest,pause,interval,recess,cease,stop
這些名詞均含有“中止，停止，休息”之意。break非正式用詞，指突然的或短時間的中止，如工作或活動期間接短暫休息。rest指統稱的休息。pause指短暫的中斷或停止，含再進行下去的意味。interval指一齣戲在幕與幕之間，音樂會上下串場之間或演出中預先安排的休息；也可泛指事件之間的一段時間。recess正式用詞，指業務活動或工作中短暫的或長時間的休息。cease正式用詞，側重逐漸結束某活動或狀態，含永遠結束的意味。stop普通用詞，指迅速或突然中止某行爲、活動或狀態。
三、相關短語：
pharyngeal recess
咽隱窩
四、參考例句：
Do you need a recess
要不要休息一下？
The conference will recess till tomorrow morning.
會議暫時休會，明天上午繼續開會。
Is there a recess in your room?
你房間裏有壁龕嗎？
They have no recreation or recess in their work.
他們並沒有休息或停工時間。
There's a small recess opening off a larger room.
有個遠離大房間的小的壁龕。
Mr Harper turned a customary recess into prorogation .
會期內的慣例休會被哈珀拖成了會期間休會。
Our school has two hour's recess at noon.
我們學校中午有兩個小時的休息時間。
From the innermost recess of the church the bell tolled for repentance.
從教堂的深處傳來了一陣鐘聲，要人們懺悔。
I put the problem down into the dim recess of my mind.
我把這個問題藏到內心深處。
If children have counselors guiding their play at a summer camp, why not at recess?
如果孩子們在暑期夏令營中有一個管理員指導他們玩耍，那爲什麼課間休息時不呢？
