“老太婆说得对。”强盗们说。于是他们停止了寻找手指头，坐了下来。

"The old woman is right," said the robbers, and they ceased looking for the finger and sat down.

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我走近时他们停止了谈话。

They stopped talking at my approach.

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当老板进来的时候；他们停止了交谈。

They stopped talking when their boss came in.

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Some of them have some of the coupons clipped and then they stop and you know that it was bad news when they stopped clipping them.

一些息票被剪下来并兑现了,而随即又停止,当他们停止剪票,这可是坏消息

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One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

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