time stands still

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短语
  1. Used to emphasize a moment in time that is either catastrophic or even enjoyable in which one's sense of time is frozen or suspended.
    — Life without love is load; and time stands still; what we refuse to him, to Death we give, And then, then only, when we love, we live.
  2. Used to state that something, especially a place, has an archaic, anachronistic or historic feeling.
    — […] unconsciously and innocently succumb to the timeless paganism of a country where time stands still and the ancient ways of humanity know nothing about stock markets and finance capitalism.
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