desist
vi. 停止
If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America...
福特从未停止过劝说他返回美国。
The magazine will desist from such language after receiving complaints...
杂志接到投诉之后将杜绝使用此类语言。
1. choose no to consume;
This will make these conversations so sticky that she will desist.
这会令对话变得很难进行,从而让她打消念头.
The seniors were demonstrating on campus and were asked desist.
高年级的学生在校园示威,校方叫他们停止示威).
The judge told the man to desist from threatening his wife.
法官告诫那男子切莫再去威胁其妻.
I conjure you by all that is holy to desist.
务祈作罢.
Peter gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist, Tink was so indignant.
起初,彼得伸手去搀温迪一把, 可是马上又缩了回来,因为叮叮铃怒不可遏.