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- rest [rεst] [rest]
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- 1. noun 睡眠，休息，歇息
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2.
noun
睡眠时期；歇息时间
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3.
noun
长眠，死亡
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4.
noun
平静，安宁
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5.
noun
静止；停止活动
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6.
noun
[phonology]
停顿；句读
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7.
noun
[music]
休止，休止符
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8.
noun
休息处；住宿处
- 9. noun 支持物（如托、架、垫、台等）
- 10. vi. 睡觉；歇息；躺下休息
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11.
vi.
宽心；保持安宁
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12.
vi.
安息；长眠
- 13. vi. 静止；不活动
- 14. vi. 保持原状
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15.
vi.
被支撑住，尤指躺；坐；靠
- 16. vi. 被支撑住，尤指搁在，置于…（in，on，upon等）
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17.
vi.
负担
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18.
vi.
归于；在于（with）
- The fault rests with him.
- 过错在他。
- 19. vi. （目光等）停留在
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20.
vi.
依据；依赖；信赖
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21.
vi.
[agriculture]
休耕
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22.
vi.
[American English]
[legal]
自动停止提供证据
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23.
vt.
使休息；使轻松
- 24. vt. 使支撑在（或靠在等）
- 25. vt. 使基于…
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26.
vt.
使（目光等）停留在
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27.
vt.
使停止
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28.
vt.
[American English]
[legal]
自动停止对（案件等）提供证据
Collins English-English Dictionary
- rest [rεst]
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1.
n
relaxation from exertion or labour
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2.
n
(as modifier)
- a rest period
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3.
n
repose; sleep
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4.
n
any relief or refreshment, as from worry or something troublesome
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5.
n
calm; tranquillity
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6.
n
death regarded as repose
- eternal rest
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7.
n
cessation from motion
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8.
n
a pause or interval
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9.
n
a mark in a musical score indicating a pause of specific duration
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10.
n
[prosody]
a pause in or at the end of a line; caesura
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11.
n
a shelter or lodging
- a seaman's rest
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12.
n
a thing or place on which to put something for support or to steady it; prop
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13.
n
[billiards]
[snooker]
any of various special poles used as supports for the cue in shots that cannot be made using the hand as a support
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14.
vb
to take or give rest, as by sleeping, lying down, etc
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15.
vb
to place or position (oneself, etc) for rest or relaxation
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16.
vt.
[tr]
to place or position for support or steadying
- to rest one's elbows on the table
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17.
vi.
[intr]
to be at ease; be calm
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18.
vi.
to cease or cause to cease from motion or exertion; halt
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19.
vi.
to lie dead and buried
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20.
vi.
[intr]
to remain without further attention or action
- let the matter rest
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21.
vi.
to direct (one's eyes) or (of one's eyes) to be directed
- her eyes rested on the sleeping child
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22.
vi.
to depend or cause to depend; base; rely
- the whole argument rests on one crucial fact
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23.
vi.
to place or be placed, as blame, censure, etc
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24.
vi.
[intr
; foll by with, on, upon,etc ] to be a responsibility (of)- it rests with us to apportion blame
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25.
vi.
[law]
to finish the introduction of evidence in (a case)
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26.
vi.
See laurel
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27.
vi.
[Etymology]
Old English ræst, reste, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic rasta a mile, Old Norse röst mile
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1.
n
relaxation from exertion or labour
- rest [rεst]
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1.
n
something left or remaining; remainder
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2.
n
the others
- the rest of the world
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3.
vb
[copula]
to continue to be (as specified); remain
- rest assured
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4.
vb
[Etymology]
C15: from Old French rester to remain, from Latin r
e sta re, fromre- + sta re tostand
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1.
n
something left or remaining; remainder
Examples
- and the rest/all the rest of it
- 以及其余/其余所有的 → rest
- eternal rest
- 永远安息；长眠 → eternal
- May he rest in peace
- 安息吧![对死者祈祷用语] → may
- to have need of a rest
- 需要休息 → need
- He works from dawn to dusk, nor does he pause for rest.
- 他从早工作到晚，从不停下来休息。 → nor
- a day of rest
- 星期日；休息日 → of
- a foot rest
- 搁脚板 → rest
- to let a matter rest
- 让某物保持原状 → rest
- to rest one's head on a pillow
- 把头搁在枕头上 → rest
- to rest an argument on facts
- 以事实作为论据 → rest
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