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a break in play during a sports game, especially one that a coach asks for in order to give new instructions to the team （体育比赛中的）暂停 New coach Steve Kerr called (a) timeout and his team responded. 新教练史蒂夫·克尔（Steve Kerr）叫（a）暂停，他的团队做出了回应。
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computing 计算机 an occasion when a process or program stops after a particular amount of time because it has not worked successfully 超时；（自动）暂停