cease

1.【例】Cease fire!停火!
2.【助记】谐音息死---又休息又死(又休又死, 又息又死),停.
3. say stop 简称：say "s" (与cease发音相同).
4.【息事】息事就是让事情停止下来。息事宁人。

cease 停止

词源同cede, 走，离开，词源同accede, cession。

cease

cease: [14] Cease comes via Old French cesser from Latin cessāre ‘delay, stop’. This was derived from cessus, the past participle of cēdere ‘go away, withdraw, yield’, which was also the basis of cessation [14], from Latin cessātiō.
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cease (v.)

c. 1300, cesen, from Old French cesser "to come to an end, stop, cease; give up, desist," from Latin cessare "to cease, go slow, give over, leave off, be idle," frequentative of cedere (past participle cessus) "go away, withdraw, yield" (see cede). Related: Ceased; ceasing. Old English in this sense had geswican, blinnan.

cease (n.)

"cessation, stopping," c. 1300, from cease (n.) or else from Old French cesse "cease, cessation," from cesser.

1. It hurt so badly he wished to cease to be.

他觉得疼痛难忍，恨不得死了算了。

2. Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.

一旦我们的服务对他们不再有用，我们就可能被抛弃。

3. Heavy fighting erupted there today after a two-day cease-fire.

在停火两天后，今天那里爆发了激烈的战斗。

4. The plan calls for a cease-fire and UN supervision of the country.

该计划要求双方停火并由联合国对该国进行监督。

5. UN officials are expressing cautious optimism that the latest cease-fire is holding.

联合国官员对于最近的停火协定是否有效持谨慎的乐观态度。

【pause, stop, break, interval, cease, recess, rest】
这组词都有“中止，停止，休息”的意思，其区别是：
pause: 指短暂的中断或停止，含再进行下去的意味。
stop: 普通用词，指迅速或突然中止某行为、活动或状态。
break: 非正式用词，指突然的或短时间的中止，如工作或活动期间接短暂休息。
interval: 指一出戏在幕与幕之间，音乐会上下串场之间或演出中预先安排的休息；也可泛指事件之间的一段时间。
cease: 正式用词，侧重逐渐结呸某活动或状态，含永远结束的意味。
recess: 正式用词，指业务活动或工作中短暂的或长时间的休息。
rest: 指统称的休息。

【pause, stop, cease, halt, quit】
这组词都有“停止”的意思，其区别是：
pause: 指暂时的、瞬间的停顿，隐含有再进行之意。
stop: 指动作、运行、进展等被停下来，含突然、断然的意味。
cease: 指逐渐、徐徐中止某种状态的存在。书面用词。
halt: 侧重突然地、决定性地终止、停止某一活动。
quit: 指最终彻底停止某事，有时暗示遭到失败或面临挫折。