But,once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered,or capped, to stop the flow of oil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Okay, have to stop there--might add a word or two-- but on Thursday we turn, I'm afraid with a certain awkwardness; I wish there were an intervening weekend, to Freud and Peter Brooks.

好的，必须在此停下了，再加一两句-,到周四我们将会，恐怕有点尴尬;,我希望会有一个周末，留给弗洛伊德和彼得，布鲁克斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If you ask a New Yorker for how to get to a certain subway stop or whatever,

如果你询问一个纽约人怎么去某个地铁站或者别的地方。

生存英语 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On Monday,the foundation demanded the reinstatement of the video or it said it will stop giving money to Smithsonian exhibitions.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The U.N.report was based,in part, on one hundred ten national reports on action taken to reduce or stop the loss of biodiversity.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

It is not to bind them from voluntary actions but to direct and keep them in such motion as not to hurt themselves by their own impetuous desires, rashness or indiscretion as hedges are set not to stop travelers but to keep them on their way."

不是约束他们去做本该做的事,而是约束他们不做不该做的事,以免因自己的欲望，轻率，鲁莽而危机自身，这就像是篱笆的功能一样,不是要阻挡行路而是为小路指引方向“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus by shining lights in their eyes.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

He or she been flirting with you non-stop. And you'd like them to stop.

他/她不停地试图跟你打情骂俏。你希望他们停止。

I have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

You'll find "That's all" very useful to express what you have or to put a stop to something.

你会发现 “That's all” 是个非常有用的句型。你可以用它来给一件事画个句号。

That's all课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant material.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

To stop this, President Jackson ordered gold or silver payments only for government land.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

I always tell them to stop horsing around or someone could get hurt.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

The truce did not last long. In the weeks that followed, a number of attempts were made to stop or arrest the leaders of the Free State government.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Australia has set a November deadline to zero, for Japan to stop whaling in Antarctic waters, or face international court action.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

But she says important steps were taken that,she believes, will ultimately result in an agreement to stop or retard climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Commuters also complained about other drivers' rude and aggressive behavior when traffic started to slow or stop.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"What next? Will the government pursue anything else or is it all going to stop right now?

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"The next stop is for epidemiologists and physicians who are trying to develop vaccines or drugs to take advantage of this knowledge in doing their work."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Spokesman Bereket Simon says Ethiopia has not and will not stop its military support to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government,or TFG, in its fight against a foreign-backed insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

Radia says the coalition is not trying to stop law enforcement from getting information to capture criminals or terrorists, but to give the average person the right to privacy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"They are having an impact, whether domestically or internationally, and you have got to account for it, and this is one of those break points where you stop and assess how is the administration doing?

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"The new cap is good news." "Either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11