He stopped work and took a rest.

他停下工作休息了一会儿。

youdao

He stopped work to have a few whiffs.

他停下工作抽几口烟。

youdao

As he often did, he stopped by the "after work auction" run by the Italian police where things found on the trains were sold to the highest bidder.

和往常一样，他在意大利警方举办的“after work 拍卖会”停下来，在那里，在火车上发现的东西被卖给出价最高的人。

youdao

They stopped laughing when they found he could do the hard work of a cowboy as well as any of them.

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Nothing went right. So he stopped at a local bar a drinking place after leaving work.

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He is incredibly accomplished with many more years of experience and still going a million miles an hour, even though he stopped having to work years ago.

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Meanwhile, he never stopped trying to work out the structure of things.

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Employee was late because he attempted to cut his own hair before work and the clippers stopped working, so he had to wait until the barber shop opened to fix his hair.

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