| 单词 | stop short of (doing) something |
| 释义 | stop short of (doing) somethingstop short of (doing) something NOT DO somethingto decide that you are not willing to do something wrong or dangerous, though you will do something similar that is less dangerous 决定不做，不愿做〔错误或危险的事情〕 The US government supported sanctions but stopped short of military action. 美国政府支持制裁，但不愿采取军事行动。 Examples from the Corpus stop short of (doing) something• Shepherd stopped short of calling him a liar.• Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.• In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.• He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.• I know people who would maim and yet stop short of murder.• Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.• Eric Gray charged back up the court before stopping short of the center line.• Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective. → stop short of (doing) something at stop1(2) |
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