| 词汇 | put a stop/an end to something |
| 释义 | put a stop/an end to somethingput a stop/an end to something STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto stop an activity that is harmful or unacceptable 结束某事，停止某事〔指有害或者不被人接受的活动〕 We must put an end to their threats. 我们必须让他们停止威胁。 Examples from the Corpus put a stop/an end to something• That put an end to any stunt deemed risky, Weiss says.• This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.• Thus the event of her puberty puts an end to her pure childhood.• Her old feeling for him had returned; she was determined to put an end to his sufferings and bring him home.• It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it.• To put an end to such exalted talk, I asked Mendl to tell me about Spats-making machinery.• Judge Frossard, it seems, wanted to put an end to the inertia.• Swiftly introduce new legislation to put an end to the trauma and misery suffered by child witnesses in court proceedings.• It's time the community worked together to put an end to the violence. → put a stop/an end to something at put(1) |
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