desist

英 [dɪˈzɪst]

美 [dɪˈzɪst]

v.  停止; 结束

过去式：desisted　第三人称单数：desists　现在分词：desisting　过去分词：desisted　

BNC.19558 / COCA.21651

牛津词典

verb

• 停止；结束
  to stop doing sth
  1. They agreed to desist from the bombing campaign.
     他们同意停止大规模轰炸。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 停止（做）；不再（做）
  If youdesist fromdoing something, you stop doing it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. She rubbed her arms, but they hurt and she desisted.
     她揉了揉胳膊，感觉很疼就停下了。

英英释义

verb

• choose not to consume
  1. I abstain from alcohol
  Synonym:abstainrefrain

双语例句

• If people knew how much I hated that, they would desist.
  如果人们知道我多么讨厌这种套话，他们就不会这么写了。
• Kindly desist from treating the disabled so coldly.
  请不要再这样冷淡对待残疾人士了。
• I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
  我一生一直为了令自己喜欢英格兰人而努力，但我不得不在绝望中放弃这一项实验。
• They were requested to desist from carrying out further experiments.
  有人要求他们停止进一步的试验。
• Please treat this as my final demand for you to cease and desist perpetrating any conduct of a threatening nature upon me.
  请你停止对我实施任何意在威胁的行为，这是我对你最后的请求。
• That's a federal cease and desist order.
  这是给你们的接管令。
• They were told to desist from spreading grapevine news.
  已告诉他们停止散布小道消息。
• 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。
• We will not countenance North Koreas pattern of provoking a crisis and then insisting they be rewarded in order to cease and desist from the actions they are taking.
  我们不会纵容北韩的一贯行径，他们总是先挑起危机，然后非要索取回报才会罢休和停止他们的所作所为。
• Second, if he truly had a viable complaint then why didn't he file an immediate "cease and desist" order?
  其次，要是他真的有正当的理由的话，为什么他不签署一个立即执行的“停业和终止”的命令呢？