Re: 請問一個常用句型 - stop short of
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 )》之銘言：
: 我在BB中看過兩次 < stop short of > 這種句型
: 我想請問的是該如何翻譯比較適當呢
: 手邊有的例子是某次閱讀測驗中的句子
: "Such discrimination sometimes stopped short of lifetime servitude or
: inherited status--後面省略"
: 麻煩大家討論看看 謝謝!!!
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