to stop doing sth
They agreed to desist from the bombing campaign.
他们同意停止大规模轰炸。
1.停止,休想,断念
1.to stop doing something
1.Please treat this as my final demand for you to cease and desist perpetrating any conduct of a threatening nature upon me.
请你停止对我实施任何意在威胁的行为，这是我对你最后的请求。
2.It referred the matter to its legal department, which sent the company a cease-and-desist letter.
答案是否定。他们把这个事反映给了法律部门，然后他们发了一封警告信。
3.Calling After Email: It might be tempting to call up the person you just emailed, but desist.
邮件发送后忌打电话：你可能想要给刚刚发出那封邮件的收件人打个电话，但是最好是打消这个念头。
4.I wish my younger brother would desist from playing network games all day, otherwise he would have to discontinue his study.
但愿我的弟弟别再整天玩网络游戏了，否则，他将无法完成学业。
5.voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.
我命令你们，扎波罗热的哥萨克，自愿向我投降并不再反抗和以攻击来侵扰我了。
6.Makers of the Irish stout used to market it under the slogan "Guinness is good for you" - until they were told to desist.
生产爱尔兰烈啤酒的商家经常打着“黑啤酒益处多多”的旗号，直到他们停产。
7.But the bank remains hobbled by a "cease and desist" order from the FDIC that limits its deposit-gathering.
然而，该银行仍受到FDIC所颁布的“政府禁令”，限制了它的资金整合。
8.Or maybe you saw yourself advising her to desist from the oldest trick in the book?
或者你可能建议她放弃这种老掉牙的伎俩？
9.Upon this, the Police decided to desist in the execution of the warrant pending further legal advice.
有见及此，警方决定停止行使搜查令以候取法律意见。
10.In return for such a commitment, the US Treasury secretary would desist from branding China a currency manipulator next month.
作为交换，美国财长下月不把中国列为货币操纵国。