verb
(使)停止,终止,结束
to stop happening or existing; to stop sth from happening or existing
Welfare payments cease as soon as an individual starts a job.
一旦就业,即停发福利救济。
You never cease to amaze me!
你总能让我感到惊奇!
They voted to cease strike action immediately.
他们投票决定立即停止罢工。
He ordered his men to cease fire (= stop shooting) .
他命令手下停止射击。
The company ceased trading in June.
这家公司已于六月停业。
cease
-
1
VERB 停止;终了;消失
If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.At one o'clock the rain had ceased.
一点时,雨已停了。
-
2
VERB 停止;终止
If you cease to do something, you stop doing it.He never ceases to amaze me...
他总能给我惊喜。
-
3
VERB 停止;终止
If you cease something, you stop it happening or working.The Tundra Times, a weekly newspaper in Alaska, ceased publication this week.
阿拉斯加的周报《苔原时报》本周停刊了。
noun
-
1
- (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
verb
-
1
- 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
- Synonym: end stop finish terminate
-
2
- put an end to a state or an activity
- Quit teasing your little brother
- Synonym: discontinue stop give up quit lay off
数据来源:WordNet
-
He ordered his men to cease fire .
他命令手下停止射击。
-
They voted to cease strike action immediately .
他们投票决定立即停止罢工。
-
Welfare payments cease as soon as an individual starts a job .
一旦就业,即停发福利救济。
-
On his retirement the post will cease to exist .
他退休后这个职位就会撤掉。
-
The commission intervened and commanded that work on the building cease .
委员会进行了干预,下令那栋大楼必须停建。
-
The company ceased trading in June .
这家公司已于六月停业。
-
It never ceases to amaze me what some people will do for money .
有些人为了钱什么都干得出来,这一直使我惊愕不已。
-
For all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist
实际上协议已经不复存在。
-
A small number of firms have ceased trading .
一小部分公司已经停止贸易。
-
The secrecy about the President 's condition had ceased to matter
总统的健康状况已经没有保密的必要。
-
At one o'clock the rain had ceased .
一点时,雨已停了。
-
I was married to a man who had ceased to attract me .
我嫁给了一个我已不再钟情的男人。
-
It hurt so badly he wished to cease to be .
他觉得疼痛难忍,恨不得死了算了。
-
Once our services cease to be useful to them , we 're expendable
一旦我们的服务对他们不再有用,我们就可能被抛弃。
-
She ceased to think , as anger transmuted into passion
当怒火转化为激情,她停止了思考。
-
The Riverside Restaurant promises a variety of food that never ceases to amaze !
滨河饭店总能提供品种繁多、令人称奇的食物。
-
It never ceases to amaze me how the business world continues to trivialize the world 's environmental problems .
商界一直不重视世界环境问题,总让我惊讶不已。
-
She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland
她一直很敬佩爱尔兰北部人民的坚忍和勇敢。
-
The Tundra Times , a weekly newspaper in Alaska , ceased publication this week .
阿拉斯加的周报《苔原时报》本周停刊了。
-
The droning murmur of the doctor 's voice in the bedroom had ceased .
卧室里医生喋喋不休的低语声已经停下了。
-
He never ceases to amaze me
他总能给我惊喜。
-
The old woman ceased breathing the night before .
老妇人前一天晚上停止了呼吸。
-
She ceased to be a member of the association .
她不再是协会会员。
-
Both sides agreed to cease the war .
双方都同意结束这场战争。
-
The great empire has ceased to be .
那个伟大的帝国已不复存在了。
-
I think and think and cannot cease from thinking .
我想了又想,一直想个没完。
-
One may be poor but never ceases to be ambitious .
人穷志不穷。
-
Never for a moment has the fire of war ceased .
战火一刻也没有间断过。
-
He really gave his all till his heart ceased to beat .
他真是鞠躬尽瘁,死而后已。
-
The struggle in this regard , open and secret , between the two countries has never ceased for a minute .
这两个国家在这一方面的明争暗斗,一刻也没有停止过。
普通用词,指迅速或突然地中止某一行为、活动或状态;后接动名词时,表示直接停止做某事;后接动词不定式时,表示停下来去做某事。
The machine stopped working.
机器停止运转了。
Seeing a man lying on the road, the driver stopped his car.
司机发现路上躺着一个人,便急忙刹车。
I stopped to see what had happened.
我停下来去看发生了什么事。
指逐渐结束某一活动或状态,常含永久性终止之意,后接动名词或动词不定式均可,且意思基本不变。
The old woman ceased breathing the night before.
老妇人前一天晚上停止了呼吸。
Both sides agreed to cease the war.
双方都同意结束这场战争。
She ceased to be a member of the association.
她不再是协会会员。
指停止前进或中止活动、发展等。
The train suddenly halted.
火车突然停了下来。
The soldiers halted and rested from their march.
士兵们停止前进,稍作休息。
Our company halted the operations during the strike.
罢工期间,我们公司暂止了业务。
- 习语