| 词组 | stop |
| 释义 | stop [stopped, stopped, stopping] stop at stop at nothing to be willing to do anything, even if it is cruel, dishonest, or illegal, in order to get what you want stop at nothing to do sth ▪ Drug addicts will stop at nothing to get money for their next fix. ▪ Mike Calder was a hard, cold man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. stop away stop away informal to decide not to go somewhere that you usually go to, because something is wrong or different from usual: ▪ If the manager sells all the team's decent players, the fans are going to stop away. + from ▪ You really ought to stop away from school if you're not feeling too well. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay away stop behind/back 1. stop back AmE to come back to a place a short time later: ▪ Can you stop back later? I'm kind of busy right now. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑come back 2. stop behind BrE to stay in a place after other people have gone, especially because you have work to do there: ▪ I'll stop behind for a couple of hours after school to get this marking finished. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay behind stop by stop by • stop by sth to visit a person or place for a short time, especially when you are on your way to somewhere else: ▪ I want to stop by and see Tracy on the way home. stop by (sth) to do sth ▪ In the morning, Kim stopped by the post office to check the mail. ▪ When Rena was out of town, Miles stopped by to feed her cats. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑call in, ↑stop in, ↑come by especially AmE, ↑drop by informal, ↑pop in informal stop in 1. stop in informal to visit a person or place for a short time, especially when you are on your way to somewhere else: ▪ She worked just round the corner from my house and often stopped in for a visit. +at ▪ Stop in at the Coffee Plantation for Tucson's smoothest jazz! ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stop by, ↑drop by informal 2. stop in BrE informal to stay at home instead of going out somewhere, especially in the evening: ▪ "Are you coming for a drink?" "No, I'm stopping in tonight." ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay in ■ OPPOSITE: go out stop off stop off to stop during a journey for example in order to see something or someone, or to have a rest: ▪ On the way back home, he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying. +at/in etc ▪ Boats will take you up and down the river, stopping off at Richmond, Kew, and Greenwich. +for ▪ The driver's home was nearby, so they stopped off for a mint tea there. stop-off n C a short visit that you make during a journey, for example to rest or to see someone or something: ▪ The flight takes 14 hours with a stop-off in Singapore. stop-off adj a stop-off point or place is a place where you stop during a journey, especially to rest: ▪ The town is attractive and is a useful stop-off point on the route across the mountains. stop on stop on BrE to stay somewhere, especially for longer than you had planned or longer than other people: ▪ It was decided that Charles would leave next day for London, and that I would stop on here for another month. ▪ The couple brought medicines to the village and stopped on to nurse the children back to health. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay on stop out stop out BrE informal to stay out late at night at a club, party etc: ▪ Lizzie stopped out all night on Saturday. ▪ Mum won't let me stop out late. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay out stop over 1. stop over to stay somewhere for a night or a few days during a long journey, especially in order to rest or visit someone: ▪ The Foreign Minister will stop over in Paris on his way to the conference for talks with French officials. stopover n C a short stay somewhere for a night or a few days during a long journey: ▪ There are no direct flights, so we'll have a two-day stopover in Delhi. ▪ The town is often used by tourists as a stopover en route to Turkey. 2. stop over BrE informal to sleep at someone else's house when you have been visiting them: ▪ Malcolm and the kids came for a meal on Saturday and stopped over. stop up 1. stop up sth • stop sth up to fill a hole and prevent anything coming out or going in: ▪ There's a hole in this pipe. I need something to stop it up with. ▪ People are so concerned about draughts - they stop up every little opening and the house gets stuffy and airless. 2. stop up BrE informal to not go to bed at the normal time and stay up late, especially in order to do something stop up to do sth ▪ I stopped up to watch the baseball and it went on until after twelve. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stay up 3. be stopped up AmE if your nose or head is stopped up, it is blocked with thick liquid because you have a cold: ▪ I have a headache, my nose is stopped up and I feel terrible. ■ SIMILAR TO: be blocked up, ↑be bunged up BrE |
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