As a result of the fire, we stopped working for two months.

由于大火的原因， 我们两个月就没上班了。

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Mike's dad suggested we shut down the business. So our comic-book business shut down, and we stopped working on Saturdays at the convenience store.

迈克的爸爸建议我们关门，所以我们的小人书生意结束了，同时我们也停止了在小店的工作。

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We stopped working to have a rest.

我们停止工作，休息一下。

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Isn't it time we stopped working for the government and the government started working for us?" Democrats in Congress pushed a modified version of the president's spending plan through the House and Senate last week, despite strong Republican opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

Where we once used the same baubles and tree lights year in and year out which inevitably stopped working as soon as they were taken out of storage we now theme trees to suit our moods or to follow fashions, taking a page from store window displays like Ms. McCartney's and decked-out hotel foyers.

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We thought it was a frozen pipe at first, but then the taps downstairs stopped working too.

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Laws and policies that have stopped working are phased out more quickly than they are in the U.S., where we still pay the 1898 Spanish American War tax in our phone bills.

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