「give pause」出自哪部電影？

這一頁最上面的片段出自電影 Watchmen (2009)。

give pause

Watchmen (2009)裡有一句：「Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice.」

使認真考慮；使猶豫

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使認真考慮；使猶豫
to make sb think seriously about sth or hesitate before doing sth
Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.

釋義來自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》第 9 版

Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice.

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