作者illufox ( )
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标题Re: 请问一个常用句型 - stop short of
时间Tue Oct 3 16:49:40 2006
stop short of doing something
1. to decide not to do something.
I stopped short of telling him what I really felt about him.
2. to almost do something, or partly do something without completing it.
The punishments are quite severe but they stop short of losing
your job.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the forms stop well short of or stop just
short of: The government is stopping just short of threatening to go to war.
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms c Cambridge University Press 2003
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stop+short+of
※ 引述《hwuhwu (哈哈哈 )》之铭言：
: 我在BB中看过两次 < stop short of > 这种句型
: 我想请问的是该如何翻译比较适当呢
: 手边有的例子是某次阅读测验中的句子
: "Such discrimination sometimes stopped short of lifetime servitude or
: inherited status--後面省略"
: 麻烦大家讨论看看 谢谢!!!
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1F：推 hwuhwu:推推 原来那也可以查~~ 感谢 10/03 17:08
2F：推 hwuhwu:但1,2的解释差很多耶 文意有点相反的感觉 10/03 17:11
3F：→ hwuhwu:一个是决定不, 一个是几乎.. 10/03 17:11
4F：→ hwuhwu:请问是否有较好判断1 or 2的方法呢 10/03 17:12
5F：推 hwuhwu:是否1的解释比较常用呢? 10/03 17:14