查询词典 desisted

Seeing the boss coming, they desisted from gossiping.

见老板来了，他们停止了闲谈。

He tried it at least a hundred times, shutting his eyes to keep from seeing his struggling legs, and only desisted when he began to feel in his side a faint dull ache he had never felt before.

他试了大约一百次，闭上眼睛，好不必看见那些拼命挣扎的腿，后来他开始在腰部感觉到一种还从未感受过的隐痛，这时他才不得不罢休。

I know of many cases where having no children the husband after middle age wanted to take a concubine, but because the wife refused to give her consent, desisted.

还是举《中国人的精神》中的两句话。辜鸿铭谈到古代纳妾的问题，先看一个比较简单的句子

China's way ensures that those smithereens—thousands of bits of debris, large and small—will orbit like bullets in space for years (another reason the Americans and Russians desisted).

中国操作的方式使得卫星残骸——大小不一的数千碎片——会像子弹一样沿轨道运行（这也是美国和俄罗斯金盆洗手的另一原因）。

China's way ensures that those smithereens—thousands of bits of debris, large and small—will orbit like bullets in space for years (another reason the Americans and Russians desisted).

中国这种方式使得成千上万的碎片，大的小的，像子弹一样在太空遨游很多年。

I know of many cases where having no children the husband after middle age wanted to take a concubine, but because the wife refused to give her consent, desisted.

只能翻译这一句：我知道这样一些事实：有些人过中年仍没有子嗣的丈夫希望纳妾，但是由于遭到妻子的反对而不得不放弃。

As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-lustre countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together.

RIP和他的同伴走近他们，他们突然不再向他们的发挥，在他盯着这些固定的雕像般的目光，这种奇怪的，粗鲁，缺乏光泽的脸上，他的心内转向他，和他一起膝盖击杀。

When Christians took arms and fired back, the fundamentalists ran away, and had desisted from killing Christians as they liked.

当基督徒took武器开火还击，原教旨就跑，也不想杀基督徒，因为他们喜欢。

The person, whoever it was, did knock again, and then desisted, apparently tired out; but about a minute afterwards a key turned in the door.

这人，不管他是谁吧，又再次敲门了，后来他就住了手，显然很是疲劳；然而，大约一分钟后，有把钥匙在门锁上转动。

It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk; but either it stuck too hard or my nerve failed me; and I desisted with a violent shudder.

我第一个念头就是把短剑拔出来，但也许它在桅杆上插得太深或是我力不从心，只好放弃这个念头。我猛地打了个寒战。

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。