stop short 的定义
- Also, stop one short. Check abruptly, as in When we tried to cross the street, the barrier stopped us short. [Early 1300s]
stop short 近义词
等同于 abbreviate
等同于 cut short
更多stop short例句
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
- That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
- Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
- The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
- Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
- Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
- He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
- They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
- "But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.