Discontinue
[dɪskən'tɪnjuː] or [,dɪskən'tɪnju]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) put an end to a state or an activity; 'Quit teasing your little brother'.
(verb.) come to or be at an end; 'the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31'.
錄入:洛根--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
(v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
(v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
西里尔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Intermit, stop, interrupt, break off, leave off, put an end to.
欧内斯廷編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cease to continue: to put an end to: to leave off: to stop.—v.i. to cease: to be separated from.—ns. Discontin′uance Discontinuā′tion a breaking off or ceasing; Discontinū′ity.—adj. Discontin′uous not continuous: broken off: separated: interrupted by intervening spaces.—adv. Discontin′uously.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I now ordered him to discontinue his work of repairing roads and to move on with his whole force to Stevenson, Alabama, without delay. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Discontinue when gums get sore and resume again when soreness is gone. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I appeal to you to discontinue your habit of making your misplaced attentions as plain to Mrs Boffin as to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is a pity, cried Fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It was found, however, in practice, that the compound gas thus formed was more costly than ordinary coal gas, and the plan has been discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The imitation of the action of horses' hoofs was one of the means attempted, but such additional aids were eventually found to be of no avail, and were discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- He met with other disasters common to worthy inventors and discontinued his efforts to improve the art. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The dances were discontinued, and so the belief in their failure is complete. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
編輯:米考伯