| 单词 | stop a moment! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstop a moment! d. imperative, used as an injunction to pause in or desist from any procedure, as speech, argument, criticism, and the like. Also in the phrase stop a moment! ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it! > stop! or take no action! stop1570 not so fasta1593 hold your horses!1843 to hold on1846 hold it!1926 hold everything!1930 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2164/2 At last his chaplynes cryed, stoppe, stoppe my Lord, for now he wyll recant. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 6 B... To tax Directors,..Still better, Ministers; or if the thing May pinch ev'n there—why lay it on a King. A. Stop! stop! B. Must Satire, then, nor rise, nor fall? 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. ix. 58 Stop a moment, said the prince, is there such depravity in man, as that he should [etc.]. 1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xxx ‘Well, are you satisfied that this is his handwriting?’.. ‘Why, of course—but stop—you are right; it is not his hand.’ 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xlvii. 408 ‘We will knock the neck [of the bottle] off with a stone.’ ‘Stop, Sir,’ said the stranger. ‘Excuse me—this is the way to do it.’ 1865 F. Marryat Love's Conflict I. xix. 336 He..drew out the packet of letters. ‘Confound it!’ where was the one in his mother's handwriting? The rest were all there—stop! were they? 1887 O. Wilde Canterville Ghost v ‘Stop!’ cried Virginia, stamping her foot, ‘it is you who are rude, and horrid, and vulgar’. < as lemmas |
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