常看到英语 blogger 们预期一段时间不能更新 blog 时，就发个帖子说 take a hiatus。我也要 take a hiatus 啦，大概半个月的时间。

Dictionary.com 上的解释：

hiatus  /haɪˈeɪtəs/ –noun, plural -tus‧es, -tus.

1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
2. a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
3. any gap or opening.
4. Grammar, Prosody. the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
5. Anatomy. a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.

要去欧盟比较特殊的一个国家，有“伟大的左后卫”，黑手党，以及古怪的政治，据说还有小偷。参看这个 flash：