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rest (obj) STOPrestvto (cause to) stop doing a particular activity or stop being active for a period of time in order to relax and get back your strength（使）休息，暂停He looked away from the computer screen to rest his eyes. [T]他让目光离开计算机屏幕，休息一下眼睛。She invited him in to rest his tired feet. [T]她请他进来歇歇脚。I'm exhausted -- let's rest for a few minutes. [I]我累了----让我们休息一会儿吧。The doctor told him that he should rest for a few days. [I]医生告诉他应该休息几天。She promised that she would not rest (= would not stop looking) until the murderer of her son was caught and imprisoned. [I]她发誓说直到谋杀她儿子的凶手被捕入狱她才肯罢休。(Am) Why don't you take a nap to rest up (= relax in order to have strength) for the party? [I]你为什么不小睡一下休息休息，以便去参加聚会？(infml) An actor who is resting does not have any work. It is another way of saying unemployed.（演员）无戏可演Over 90% of professional actors are resting at any given time. [I]在任何时候都有90％以上的专业演员无戏可演。If you let a subject rest, you do not talk about it or mention it.停止谈论After he had told his friends he was writing a novel, they wouldn't let the subject rest. [I]当他告诉朋友们他正在写一本小说后，他们便不肯停止谈论这一话题。(infml) "Why won't you let me come with you?" "Oh, let it rest (= Do not mention it)!" [I]“你为什么不让我与你一起去呢？”“噢，别提它！”Rest in peace (abbreviation RIP) is often written on a stone put above a person's GRAVE (= a place where a dead person is buried), or is said of a person who has recently died.安息If you say about someone who has died 'may he/she/they rest in peace'you are showing respect for them and expressing the hope that their spirit has finally found peace.愿他/她/他们安息A resting-place is a place where someone is buried.长眠处，坟墓His last/final resting-place was in the churchyard in the village in which he was born.他的坟墓在他出生的村庄教堂墓地里。
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