stops的中文翻譯是什麼意思

VERB停止;停下

If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it.

• Stop throwing those stones!...

  不要再扔那些石頭了！

• He can't stop thinking about it...

  他沒辦法不再想這件事。

VERB阻止;使中斷;使停止

If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing.

• He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war...

  他提出了一項新的外交計劃以盡力阻止這場戰爭。

• If the fire isn't stopped, it could spread to 25,000 acres...

  如果大火不被撲滅，它可能會蔓延 2.5 萬英畝。

VERB(活動或過程)停下來，中止

If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening.

• The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains...

  雨停了，山頂上有一兩顆星星在閃爍。

• The system overheated and filming had to stop...

  系統過熱，拍攝工作只好停了下來。

V-ERG(機器等)停止運轉;(使)停止工作

If something such as machine stops or is stopped, it is no longer moving or working.

• The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m...

  鍾在凌晨 2 點 12 分時停了。

• His heart stopped three times...

  他的心臟曾 3 次停止跳動。

V-ERG(使)(移動著的人或車)停下;把…攔住

When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place.

• The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint...

  那輛車沒有在軍方檢查站停車。

• He stopped and let her catch up with him...

  他停下來，好讓她追上自己。

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.

• People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop...

  人們經常在火車還尚未完全停好時就違規開啟車門。

• He slowed the car almost to a stop.

  他放慢車速，車幾乎停住了。

VERB停下來(思考或解釋)

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.

• She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying...

  她都沒有停下來想一想自己在說些什麼。

• There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it...

  如果停下來好好想想的話，就會發覺整件事情相當蹊蹺。

VERB止於;結束

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.

• The cafe owner has put up the required 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there...

  咖啡館老闆已經按規定貼上了“禁止吸菸”的標誌，但是他認為自己的責任就止於此。

• The good news did not stop there...

  好訊息還不止這些。

N-COUNT車站;停車站

A stop is a place where buses or trains regularly stop so that people can get on and off.

• There was an Underground map above one of the windows and I counted the stops to West Hampstead...

  其中一扇窗戶上方有一張地鐵線路圖，我數了數到西漢普斯特德站共有幾站。

• They waited at a bus stop.

  他們在一個公共汽車站等車。

VERB(旅程中)逗留，停留

If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while.

• He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta...

  他堅持讓我們在亞特蘭大市外不遠的一家小餐館歇歇腳。

• It would be a crime to travel all the way to Australia and not stop in Sydney.

  如果不遠萬里去了澳大利亞，卻沒在悉尼稍作停留，那真是一種罪過。

N-COUNT(旅程中的)停留時間，停留地

A stop is a time or place at which you stop during a journey.

• The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris...

  庫克先生漫長旅程中的最後一站是巴黎。

• Mack was driving down from Vermont, with a stop in Boston to pick Sarah up.

  麥克正開車從佛蒙特向南行駛，中途經停波士頓接上薩拉。

N-COUNT(風琴的)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.

PHRASE不擇手段;無所顧忌

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.

• Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

  他們的動機是錢，為了錢他們會不擇手段。

PHRASE全力以赴;竭盡全力

If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make something happen or succeed.

• New Zealand police vowed yesterday to pull out all the stops to find the killer.

  紐西蘭警方昨天發誓要竭盡全力抓到殺人兇手。

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.

• His daughter should have stood up and put a stop to all these rumours.

  他的女兒早該站出來平息所有這些謠言。

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.

• Like many politicians before him, Mr Bentley did not know when to stop...

  和過去的很多政客一樣，本特利先生做事也沒分寸。

• You should know when to stop asking questions.

  你應該知道什麼事不該問。