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VERB
停止;停下
If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it.
例句
Stop throwing those stones!...
不要再扔那些石头了！
He can't stop thinking about it...
他没办法不再想这件事。
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VERB
阻止;使中断;使停止
If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing.
例句
He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war...
他提出了一项新的外交计划以尽力阻止这场战争。
If the fire isn't stopped, it could spread to 25,000 acres...
如果大火不被扑灭，它可能会蔓延 2.5 万英亩。
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VERB
(活动或过程)停下来，中止
If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening.
例句
The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains...
雨停了，山顶上有一两颗星星在闪烁。
The system overheated and filming had to stop...
系统过热，拍摄工作只好停了下来。
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V-ERG
(机器等)停止运转;(使)停止工作
If something such as machine stops or is stopped, it is no longer moving or working.
例句
The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m...
钟在凌晨 2 点 12 分时停了。
His heart stopped three times...
他的心脏曾 3 次停止跳动。
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V-ERG
(使)(移动着的人或车)停下;把…拦住
When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place.
例句
The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint...
那辆车没有在军方检查站停车。
He stopped and let her catch up with him...
他停下来，好让她追上自己。
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N-SING
停住;停下
If something that is moving comes to a stop or is brought to a stop, it slows down and no longer moves.
例句
People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop...
人们经常在火车还尚未完全停好时就违规打开车门。
He slowed the car almost to a stop.
他放慢车速，车几乎停住了。
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VERB
停下来(思考或解释)
If someone does not stop to think or to explain, they continue with what they are doing without taking any time to think about or explain it.
例句
She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying...
她都没有停下来想一想自己在说些什么。
There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it...
如果停下来好好想想的话，就会发觉整件事情相当蹊跷。
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VERB
止于;结束
If you say that a quality or state stops somewhere, you mean that it exists or is true up to that point, but no further.
例句
The cafe owner has put up the required 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there...
咖啡馆老板已经按规定贴上了“禁止吸烟”的标志，但是他认为自己的责任就止于此。
The good news did not stop there...
好消息还不止这些。
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N-COUNT
车站;停车站
A stop is a place where buses or trains regularly stop so that people can get on and off.
例句
There was an Underground map above one of the windows and I counted the stops to West Hampstead...
其中一扇窗户上方有一张地铁线路图，我数了数到西汉普斯特德站共有几站。
They waited at a bus stop.
他们在一个公共汽车站等车。
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VERB
(旅程中)逗留，停留
If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while.
例句
He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta...
他坚持让我们在亚特兰大市外不远的一家小餐馆歇歇脚。
It would be a crime to travel all the way to Australia and not stop in Sydney.
如果不远万里去了澳大利亚，却没在悉尼稍作停留，那真是一种罪过。
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N-COUNT
(旅程中的)停留时间，停留地
A stop is a time or place at which you stop during a journey.
例句
The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris...
库克先生漫长旅程中的最后一站是巴黎。
Mack was driving down from Vermont, with a stop in Boston to pick Sarah up.
麦克正开车从佛蒙特向南行驶，中途经停波士顿接上萨拉。
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N-COUNT
(风琴的)音栓
In music, organ stops are the knobs at the side of the organ, which you pull or push in order to control the type of sound that comes out of the pipes.
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PHRASE
不择手段;无所顾忌
If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it.
例句
Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
他们的动机是钱，为了钱他们会不择手段。
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PHRASE
全力以赴;竭尽全力
If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make something happen or succeed.
例句
New Zealand police vowed yesterday to pull out all the stops to find the killer.
新西兰警方昨天发誓要竭尽全力抓到杀人凶手。
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PHRASE
制止;阻止
If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing.
例句
His daughter should have stood up and put a stop to all these rumours.
他的女儿早该站出来平息所有这些谣言。
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PHRASE
做事很有分寸;懂得如何把持自己
If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
例句
Like many politicians before him, Mr Bentley did not know when to stop...
和过去的很多政客一样，本特利先生做事也没分寸。
You should know when to stop asking questions.
你应该知道什么事不该问。
Noun
1. the event of something ending;
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"2. the act of stopping something;
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops""his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"3. a brief stay in the course of a journey;
"they made a stopover to visit their friends"4. the state of inactivity following an interruption;
"the negotiations were in arrest""held them in check""during the halt he got some lunch""the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow""he spent the entire stop in his seat"5. a spot where something halts or pauses;
"his next stop is Atlanta"6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
"his stop consonants are too aspirated"7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
"in England they call a period a stop"8. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
"the organist pulled out all the stops"9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
"the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"10. a restraint that checks the motion of something;
"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"Verb
1. come to a halt, stop moving;
"the car stopped""She stopped in front of a store window"2. put an end to a state or an activity;
"Quit teasing your little brother"3. stop from happening or developing;
"Block his election""Halt the process"4. interrupt a trip;
"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house""they stopped for three days in Florence"5. cause to stop;
"stop a car""stop the thief"6. prevent completion;
"stop the project""break off the negociations"7. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
"Arrest the downward trend""Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia""Contain the rebel movement""Turn back the tide of communism"8. seize on its way;
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"9. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed""Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other""My property ends by the bushes""The symphony ends in a pianissimo"10. render unsuitable for passage;
"block the way""barricade the streets""stop the busy road"11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
"Hold on a moment!"