核心畫面
Think of something that was moving or going on, and then — it no longer moves, no longer continues. The arm comes down, the motion ends. Everything else is this same 'no longer goes on' applied to journeys, actions, money, or holes.
可以想成「本來在動、在進行的東西，突然不再動、不再繼續了」——像伸手一擋，動作就到此為止。這個字所有的意思，幾乎都從…更多收起
可以想成「本來在動、在進行的東西，突然不再動、不再繼續了」——像伸手一擋，動作就到此為止。這個字所有的意思，幾乎都從這個「讓它不再繼續」的畫面長出來：擋下車、擋下動作、擋下錢、擋住洞口。原始詞典資料39 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
stopverb詞源 1/stɒp/
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To cease moving.
- I stopped at the traffic lights.
- 2
Not to continue.
- The riots stopped when police moved in.
- Soon the rain will stop.
- 3
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
- 4
To cease; to no longer continue.
- One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
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To cause (something) to come to an end.
- The referees stopped the fight.
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To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something.
- Don't let me stop you working.
- When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
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To close or block an opening.
- He stopped the wound with gauze.
- Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
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artshobbieslifestyleTo adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- to stop with a friend
- He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTo regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
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obsoleteTo punctuate.
- [Francesco] Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise, whatever may be asserted to the contrary by the fastidious and inattentive.
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nauticaltransportTo make fast; to stopper.
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human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsTo pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- th-stopping
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businessfinanceTo delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
- 15
To take out of service for repair, servicing or examination.
- The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.
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To quit partaking in the use of or participation in (something).
- She stopped heroin last year.
- He stopped football to focus on acting.
stopnoun詞源 1/stɒp/
- 1
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
- 2
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That stop was not planned.
- It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
- 3
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
- So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
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A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- door stop
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA device intended to block the path of a moving object
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architectureA device intended to block the path of a moving object
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human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
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A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicOne of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal.
- The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.
- 13
biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
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A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.
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artshobbieslifestyleA part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
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artshobbieslifestyleA unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
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artshobbieslifestyleAn f-stop.
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The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
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fencinggovernmenthobbiesA coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
stoppunct詞源 1/stɒp/
- 1
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
stopnoun詞源 2/stɒp/
- 1
dialectalA small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
stopnoun詞源 3/stɒp/
- 1
natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。