休息一下：rest的用法小結
Revenge is not good once you're 's better to ing's the same after you've killed life is changed have to sleep with one eye open for the rest of your life.
——Leon
復仇並不是好事，最好是忘記，你殺了人以後，一切都變了，你的生活就從此改變了，你的餘生都要提心吊膽的過活。
——《這個殺手不太冷》
一、下面我們來看看rest有幾種含義
n.
1.休息；睡眠時間 [U,C] a period of relaxing, sleeping or doing nothing after a period of activity
Study should be sandwiched with periods of rest.
學習中間應安插一些休息時間。
2.休止；休止符 [U,C] a period of silence between notes; a sign that shows a rest between notes
When the song came to a rest she paused for a while.
唱到了休止符的時候，她停頓了一下。
3.剩餘部分；殘留；其餘 the remaining part of sth
If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
如果一隻羊跳過溝渠，其餘所有的羊都會同樣做。
4.其餘的人；其他事物；其他 the remaining people or things; the others
All the rest of us were wrong and evil.
我們其餘的人都錯了且心術不正。
5.支撐物；支架；基座；託 [C] an object that is used to support or hold sth
A rest shall be placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright.
一排書的末端應放個支撐物以使書本保持直立。
v.
1.休息；放鬆 [I,T] to relax, sleep or do nothing after a period of activity or illness
It would be nice to sit down and rest for a while.
坐下來休息一會兒是很好的。
2.（被）支撐；（使）倚靠；託 [I,T] to support sth by putting it on or against sth; to be supported in this way
Rest the ladder against the wall.
把梯子靠在牆上吧。
3.被擱置；中止 [I,T] if you let a matter rest, you stop discussing it or dealing with it
We cannot let the matter rest there.
我們不能讓問題就此被擱置下來。
4.（委婉說法）安息；長眠 [I] to be buried. People say 'rest' to avoid saying 'be buried'.
She was laid to rest beside her late husband.
她安葬在亡夫的墓旁。
二、詞義辨析：還有哪些詞彙含有“舒適，安逸，悠閒”的意思呢？
comfort, ease, leisure, relaxation, relief, rest
這些名詞均含“舒適、安逸、悠閒”之意。
comfort通常指在擺脫煩人、痛苦的事情，或在要求、願望得到滿足後所感到的舒適。
ease指因沒有擔心和憂慮而輕鬆。
leisure專指閒暇時間或悠閒狀態。
relaxation強調消除肌肉疲勞或思想的緊張狀態，使身心鬆弛，得到休息。
relief側重有消除痛苦、不適或困難的負擔，常暗含不利因素已不存在的意味。
rest與work相對，強調水分除身心痛勞，不着重休息方式。
三、下面我們來學習一下含有rest的常見短語
at rest
adv.安眠,長眠,靜止
lay to rest
埋葬,瞭解,不再過問,擱置,淡忘
rest home
n.養老院,療養院,休養所
rest on
躺在……上；依靠；落在……上；建立在……之上；依賴於, 寄託於……上；以……爲基礎
bed rest
n.臥牀休養期,牀支架
四、最後，來做個填詞遊戲吧
What she most desired was a good ____.
她最希望的是好好休息一下。
