stop

verb

不动 not move

1. （使）停止，停下
   to no longer move; to make sb/sth no longer move
   1. The car stopped at the traffic lights.
      汽车在交通信号灯前停了下来。
   2. We stopped for the night in Port Augusta.
      我们中途在奥古斯塔港停留过夜。
   3. He was stopped by the police for speeding.
      他因超速行驶被警察截住了。

不继续 not continue

2. （使）中断，停止
   to no longer continue to do sth; to make sb/sth no longer do sth
   1. That phone never stops ringing!
      那个电话没有不响的时候！
   2. Please stop crying and tell me what's wrong.
      快别哭了，告诉我出了什么事。
   3. She criticizes everyone and the trouble is, she doesn't know when to stop .
      她谁都批评；而且，问题是她批评起来就没个完。
   4. Can't you just stop?
      你就不能停一停吗？
   5. Stop me (= make me stop talking) if I'm boring you.
      你要是觉得我烦就打断我。
   6. Stop it! You're hurting me.
      住手！你把我弄疼了。
   7. Mike immediately stopped what he was doing.
      迈克立刻停下手头的事情。

结束 end

3. （使）结束，终止
   to end or finish; to make sth end or finish
   1. When is this fighting going to stop?
      这场战斗要打到什么时候？
   2. The bus service stops at midnight.
      公共汽车午夜停止服务。
   3. Has it stopped raining yet?
      雨停了没有？
   4. Doctors couldn't stop the bleeding.
      医生止不住血。
   5. The referee was forced to stop the game because of heavy snow.
      由于下大雪，裁判被迫终止了比赛。

阻止 prevent

4. 阻止；阻碍；阻拦；防止
   to prevent sb from doing sth; to prevent sth from happening
   1. I want to go and you can't stop me.
      我要走，你拦不住我。
   2. We need more laws to stop pollution.
      我们需要制定更多法律来防止污染。
   3. There's nothing to stop you from accepting the offer.
      你尽可以接受那个提议。
   4. There's no stopping us now (= nothing can prevent us from achieving what we want to achieve) .
      现在什么都无法阻挡我们了。
   5. You can't stop people from saying what they think.
      人们怎么想就会怎么说，你阻止不了。
   6. You can't stop people saying what they think.
      人们怎么想就会怎么说，你阻止不了。

短时间 for short time

5. 暂停，暂时中断（以便做某事）
   to end an activity for a short time in order to do sth
   1. I'm hungry. Let's stop for lunch.
      我饿了。我们停下来吃午饭吧。
   2. We stopped to admire the scenery.
      我们中途停下来欣赏一下风景。
   3. People just don't stop to think about the consequences.
      人们做事情就是不肯停下来想想后果。

不工作 not function

6. （使）停止工作，停止运转
   to no longer work or function; to make sth no longer work or function
   1. Why has the engine stopped?
      发动机怎么停了？
   2. I felt as if my heart had stopped.
      我觉得好像我的心都不跳了。
   3. I stopped the tape and pressed rewind.
      我停了磁带，按下倒回键。

逗留 stay

7. 逗留，待，留下（做某事）
   to stay somewhere for a short time, especially at sb's house
   1. I'm not stopping. I just came to give you this message.
      我不待了。我就是来告诉你这件事。
   2. Can you stop for tea?
      你能留下来喝茶吗？

钱 money

8. 止付；停付；扣除
   to prevent money from being paid
   1. to stop a cheque (= tell the bank not to pay it)
      通知银行止付支票
   2. Dad threatened to stop £1 a week from our pocket money if we didn't clean our rooms.
      父亲威胁说，我们要是不把自己的房间收拾干净，他就每星期扣我们1英镑的零花钱。

堵塞洞孔 close hole

9. 堵塞；塞住；阻塞
   to block, fill or close a hole, an opening, etc.
   1. Stop up the other end of the tube, will you?
      你把管子的另一头堵上好不好？
   2. I stopped my ears but still heard her cry out.
      我捂上耳朵，但还能听见她大声喊叫。

noun

停止；阻止 act of stopping

1. 停止；终止；停留；阻止
   an act of stopping or stopping sth; the state of being stopped
   1. The trip included an overnight stop in Brussels.
      这次旅行在布鲁塞尔停留过夜。
   2. She brought the car to a stop .
      她停住汽车。
   3. Work has temporarily come to a stop while the funding is reviewed.
      资金审查期间工作暂停。
   4. It is time to put a stop to the violence.
      现在是结束这场暴力活动的时候了。
   5. Babies do not grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts .
      婴儿成长的速度并非一成不变，而是长长停停，停停长长。

公共汽车；火车 of bus/train

2. 车站
   a place where a bus or train stops regularly for passengers to get on or off
   1. I get off at the next stop.
      我在下一站下车。
   2. Is this your stop?
      你在这一站下车吗？

标点符号 punctuation

标点符号 punctuation

音乐 music

3. （管风琴的）音管
   a row of pipes on an organ that produce the different sounds
4. （管风琴的）音栓
   a handle on an organ that the player pushes in or pulls out to control the sound produced by the pipes

语音学 phonetics

5. 塞音
   a speech sound made by stopping the flow of air coming out of the mouth and then suddenly releasing it, for example /p, k, t/

1. VERB 停止;停下
   If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it.
   1. Stop throwing those stones!...
      不要再扔那些石头了！
   2. He can't stop thinking about it...
      他没办法不再想这件事。
   3. I've been told to lose weight and stop smoking...
      我被告知要减肥并戒烟。
   4. I stopped working last year to have a baby...
      我去年因生小孩辞去了工作。
   5. Does either of the parties want to stop the fighting?...
      双方中没有一方想停止战斗吗？
   6. She stopped in mid-sentence.
      话说了半句她就停下不说了。
2. VERB 阻止;使中断;使停止
   If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. I think she really would have liked to stop us seeing each other...
      我认为她本来真的可能不想让我们俩继续交往下去。
   4. He put the radio on loud to stop himself thinking about it...
      他把收音机的音量开得很大，好让自己不再想这件事。
   5. Motherhood won't stop me from pursuing my acting career...
      做了母亲并不会阻止我继续追求我的演艺事业。
   6. There's nothing to stop you from doing a bit of exploring further afield.
      没有什么会阻止你到更远一些的地方探险。
3. VERB (活动或过程)停下来，中止
   If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening.
   1. 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。
   2. The system overheated and filming had to stop...
      系统过热，拍摄工作只好停了下来。
   3. The music stopped and the lights were turned up...
      音乐停止，灯光亮起。
   4. They're treating it like a game, a novelty. That's got to stop.
      他们把这件事当成了一个游戏，觉得很新鲜。不能再那样下去了。
4. 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.
   1. The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m...
      钟在凌晨 2 点 12 分时停了。
   2. His heart stopped three times...
      他的心脏曾 3 次停止跳动。
   3. Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car...
      阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。
   4. He stopped the machine and replayed the message.
      他关掉机子，重新放了一遍留言。
5. 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.
   1. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint...
      那辆车没有在军方检查站停车。
   2. He stopped and let her catch up with him...
      他停下来，好让她追上自己。
   3. The event literally stopped the traffic...
      这一事件几乎让交通陷于停顿。
   4. The van was stopped at customs in Harwich.
      小货车在哈里奇海关被拦下了。
6. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. He slowed the car almost to a stop.
      他放慢车速，车几乎停住了。
7. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. People who lead busy lives have no time to stop and reflect.
      忙忙碌碌的人们无暇停下来反思。

When an action comes to an end or stops, you can say that someone stops doing it. She stopped reading and closed the book. However, if you say that someone stops to do something, you mean that they interrupt their movement or another activity in order to do that thing. The 'to' infinitive indicates purpose. I stopped to read the notices on the bulletin board.
stops doing 表示停止做某事，如：She stopped reading and closed the book (她停止阅读，合上了书)。而 stops to do 则表示中断现在的行动或活动去做另一件事，to 引导的不定式表示目的，如：I stopped to read the notices on the bulletin board (我停下来去读布告栏上的通知)。

8. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. The good news did not stop there...
      好消息还不止这些。
   3. Once you cross over the thin line to acts of lawlessness, who knows where it stops?
      一旦你越过雷池开始干违法的事，谁知道哪里是个头呢？
9. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. They waited at a bus stop.
      他们在一个公共汽车站等车。
10. VERB (旅程中)逗留，停留
    If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
11. 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.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
12. (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.
13. 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.
    1. 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。
14. 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.
    1. 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。
15. 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.
    1. 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。
16. 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.
    1. 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。
    2. You should know when to stop asking questions.
       你应该知道什么事不该问。
17. to stop dead → see: dead

1. He stopped the machine and replayed the message.
   他停下机器，重新播放了一遍信息。
2. Stop throwing those stones!
   不要再扔那些石头了！
3. He can't stop thinking about it
   他没办法不再想这件事。
4. I've been told to lose weight and stop smoking
   我被告知要减肥并戒烟。
5. I stopped working last year to have a baby
   我去年因生小孩辞去了工作。
6. Does either of the parties want to stop the fighting?
   双方中没有一方想停止战斗吗？
7. She stopped in mid-sentence.
   话说了半句她就停下不说了。
8. 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。
9. I think she really would have liked to stop us seeing each other
   我认为她本来真的可能不想让我们俩继续交往下去。
10. He put the radio on loud to stop himself thinking about it
    他把收音机的音量开得很大，好让自己不再想这件事。
11. Motherhood won't stop me from pursuing my acting career
    做了母亲并不会阻止我继续追求我的演艺事业。
12. There's nothing to stop you from doing a bit of exploring further afield.
    没有什么会阻止你到更远一些的地方探险。
13. 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。
14. The system overheated and filming had to stop
    系统过热，拍摄工作只好停了下来。
15. The music stopped and the lights were turned up
    音乐停止，灯光亮起。
16. They're treating it like a game, a novelty. That's got to stop.
    他们把这件事当成了一个游戏，觉得很新鲜。不能再那样下去了。
17. The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m
    钟在凌晨2点12分时停了。
18. His heart stopped three times
    他的心脏曾3次停止跳动。
19. Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car
    阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。
20. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint
    那辆车没有在军方检查站停车。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. 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。

  stop cease halt【导航词义：停止】

  stop v. 停止

〔辨析〕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。

  cease v. 〈正式〉停止，终止，结束

〔辨析〕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。

  halt v. 停下，停止

〔辨析〕指停止前进或中止活动、发展等。

stop by (sth)

1. 过去坐坐；顺路造访
   to make a short visit somewhere

stop in

1. 待在家里（不外出）
   to stay at home rather than go out

stop off (at/in…)

1. 中途停留（在某处）
   to make a short visit somewhere during a trip in order to do sth

stop out

1. 夜里很晚不回家
   to stay out late at night

stop over (at/in…)

1. （长途旅行在某处）中途停留
   to stay somewhere for a short time during a long journey

stop up

1. 熬夜；迟睡
   to stay up late

v.

stop at nothing

• 不择手段
  to be willing to do anything to get what you want, even if it is dishonest or wrong

stop the clock

• （在计时比赛或活动中）停表
  to stop measuring time in a game or an activity that has a time limit

stop short

stop sb short

• （使）突然停住
  to suddenly stop, or make sb suddenly stop, doing sth
  1. He stopped short when he heard his name.
     听见有人喊他的名字，他突然停住了。

stop short of sth/of doing sth

• 差一点儿没做某事；险些做出某事
  to be unwilling to do sth because it may involve a risk, but to nearly do it
  1. She stopped short of calling the president a liar.
     她差一点儿没指责校长说谎。

stop/halt sb in their tracks

stop/halt/freeze in your tracks

• （使由于恐惧或吃惊）突然止步；（使）怔住
  to suddenly make sb stop by frightening or surprising them; to suddenly stop because sth has frightened or surprised you
  1. The question stopped Alice in her tracks.
     这个问题问得艾丽斯张口结舌无以答对。

n.

come to a full stop

• 完全停止
  to stop completely

pull out all the stops

• 竭尽全力；费九牛二虎之力
  to make the greatest effort possible to achieve sth

noun

1. a brief stay in the course of a journey
   1. they made a stopover to visit their friends

   Synonym:    stopoverlayover

2. the act of stopping something
   1. the third baseman made some remarkable stops
   2. his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood

   Synonym:    stoppage

3. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
   1. we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe

   Synonym:    blockageblockclosureocclusionstoppage

4. a restraint that checks the motion of something
   1. he used a book as a stop to hold the door open

   Synonym:    catch

5. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
   1. the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically

   Synonym:    diaphragm

6. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
   1. the organist pulled out all the stops

7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
   1. in England they call a period a stop

   Synonym:    periodpointfull stopfull point

8. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
   1. his stop consonants are too aspirated

   Synonym:    stop consonantocclusiveplosive consonantplosive speech soundplosive

9. the event of something ending
   1. it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill

   Synonym:    halt

10. a spot where something halts or pauses
    1. his next stop is Atlanta

11. the state of inactivity following an interruption
    1. the negotiations were in arrest
    2. held them in check
    3. during the halt he got some lunch
    4. the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
    5. he spent the entire stop in his seat

    Synonym:    arrestcheckhalthitchstaystoppage

verb

1. prevent completion
   1. stop the project
   2. break off the negotiations

   Synonym:    breakbreak offdiscontinue

2. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
   1. Hold on a moment!

   Synonym:    hold on

3. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
   1. Arrest the downward trend
   2. Check the growth of communism in South East Asia
   3. Contain the rebel movement
   4. Turn back the tide of communism

   Synonym:    checkturn backarrestcontainhold back

4. seize on its way
   1. The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace

   Synonym:    intercept

5. render unsuitable for passage
   1. block the way
   2. barricade the streets
   3. stop the busy road

   Synonym:    barricadeblockblockadeblock offblock upbar

6. cause to stop
   1. stop a car
   2. stop the thief

7. come to a halt, stop moving
   1. the car stopped
   2. She stopped in front of a store window

   Synonym:    halt

8. interrupt a trip
   1. we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
   2. they stopped for three days in Florence

   Synonym:    stop over

9. stop from happening or developing
   1. Block his election
   2. Halt the process

   Synonym:    haltblockkibosh

10. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
    1. the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
    2. Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
    3. My property ends by the bushes
    4. The symphony ends in a pianissimo

    Synonym:    endfinishterminatecease

11. put an end to a state or an activity
    1. Quit teasing your little brother

    Synonym:    discontinueceasegive upquitlay off