aposiopesis

英 [,æpə(ʊ),saɪə'piːsɪs] 美
  • n. 说话中断法
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英文词源

aposiopesis (n.)
rhetorical artifice wherein the speaker suddenly breaks off in the middle of a sentence, 1570s, from Latin, from Greek aposiopesis "a becoming silent," also as a rhetorical figure, from apo- (see apo-) + siope "silence."