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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ap·o·si·o·pe·sis /ˌæpəˌsaɪəˈpisəs/
 說話中斷法

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ap·o·si·o·pe·sis n.  Rhet. A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, “I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 aposiopesis
      n : breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of
          realistic conversations)
      [also: aposiopeses (pl)]