stop short
英語[編輯]
動詞[編輯]
stop short (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 stops short,現在分詞 stopping short,一般過去時及過去分詞 stopped short)
- 急停,猛然停下 (尤指說話時或駕車時)
- (常帶of) 停下 (使某物停在某個點)
- 近義詞: hold back
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章號 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版於 1915, →OCLC:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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- 2022 12月 15, Jack Royston, 「Prince Harry throws more accusations at Prince William than ever before」, 出自 Newsweek[1]:
- He stopped short of saying the story was true but accused the palace of lying when they "squashed" it.
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- (帶of) 停下 (而沒能到某個點)
- 2020 12月 30, Tim Dunn, 「The railway's mechanical marvels」, 出自 Rail,頁號 58, photo caption:
- Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.
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參考資料[編輯]
- 「to stop short of」 in the Collins English Dictionary
- 「stop short」, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- 「stop short of」, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.