喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Middle English cesen, from Middle French cesser 'to cease', from Latin cessō 'leave off', frequentative of cēdō.

源自中古法文 cesser，來自拉丁文 cessō「停下」。

Wiktionary

You can think of cease as the formal twin of stop: something that was going on now goes on no longer. The meaning is plain, but the word carries a suit and tie — it belongs to news reports, official notices, contracts and written English rather than to everyday talk, and two of its three uses only ever appear inside a fixed phrase.

可以把 cease 想成 stop 穿上正式服裝的樣子：本來在進行的事，現在不再進行了。意思很單純，語域卻不單純——它活在新聞、公告、合約和書面英文裡，日常講話很少用（會說 stop）。而且它三個用法裡有兩個只出現在固定片語中，不能單獨拆出來用。

同家族的字

ceased ceased ceasing ceases

用法接近

pausebreak offdie downwind upinjunctioncourt orderwarning letternon-stopceaselesslyendlesslyconstantly

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Ceasename/siːs/

  • 1

    A surname from German.

ceaseverb/sis/

  • 1

    formalTo stop.

    • And with that, his twitching ceased.
    • After a short while, it ceased to rain.
  • 2

    formalTo stop doing (something).

    • And with that, he ceased twitching.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

    • The poor shall never cease out of the land.
    • [...] wherefore ceaſe we then? / Say they who counſel Warr, we are decreed, / Reſerv'd and deſtin'd to Eternal woe;

ceasenoun/sis/

  • 1

    obsoleteCessation; extinction (see without cease).

    • the cease of majesty

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。