Usage examples of "pause" in English with translation to French

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Let's take a short pause. Faisons une courte pause.
In music or speaking, a pause is frequently used for dramatic effect. En musique comme en rhétorique, une pause est souvent utilisée pour créer un effet dramatique.
The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause. Les Grecs inventèrent la virgule, non pour leur littérature mais pour leurs acteurs, pour les avertir de prendre une longue inspiration en préparation d'une longue phrase à venir ; une virgule représente donc une pause.
He paused to have a cigarette. Il s'est arrêté pour avoir une cigarette.
He paused to look at the poster. Il s'arrêta pour regarder l'affiche.
Then, this child of fourteen years learned, as in a homework, that which we hide to maidens until their wedding night. She flipped through the drawings of the anatomy book, those superb drawings of a bloody reality. She paused upon each organ, understanding the most secret of them, those upon which is built the shame of men and women. Alors, cette enfant de quatorze ans apprit, comme dans un devoir, ce que l'on cache aux vierges jusqu'à la nuit des noces. Elle feuilletait les planches de l'Anatomie, ces planches superbes d'une réalité saignante; elle s'arrêtait à chacun des organes, pénétrait les plus secrets, ceux dont on a fait la honte de l'homme et de la femme.
We should sometimes pause to think. Nous devrions nous arrêter pour réfléchir de temps en temps.
He spoke for ten minutes without a pause. Il a parlé dix minutes sans interruption.
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