stop short

STOP DOING somethingQUIETto suddenly stop speaking or stop what you are doing, because something has surprised you or you have just thought of something 〔在说话或做事时因吃惊或想到某事而〕突然停下

Seeing her tears, he stopped short.

看到她在流泪，他吃惊地停了下来。

Examples from the Corpus

stop short• He reads a few lines and stops short.• At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.• It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.• The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.• He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.• Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.• Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.• Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.• He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.

→ stop short at short3(4)

词汇	stop short
释义	stop short stop short STOP DOING somethingQUIETto suddenly stop speaking or stop what you are doing, because something has surprised you or you have just thought of something 〔在说话或做事时因吃惊或想到某事而〕突然停下 Seeing her tears, he stopped short. 看到她在流泪，他吃惊地停了下来。 Examples from the Corpus stop short• He reads a few lines and stops short.• At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.• It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.• The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.• He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.• Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.• Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.• Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.• He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House. → stop short at short3(4)
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