English Dictionary

stop short

動詞

of 構文

To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle. / Usually with of, to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point.

日本語の意味

急に動作や走行、会話を中断して突然止まること / 達成しようとしていた状態や地点に向かう試みを途中で自主的に止めること

During the speech, he began to explain the plan but suddenly had to stop short when the microphone cut out.

演説の最中、彼は計画を説明し始めたが、マイクが切れたために急に話をやめざるを得なかった。

意味（1）

To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle.

意味（2）

Usually with of, to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

意味（3）

(with of) To come to a stop before reaching a certain point.

Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.

stops short （ present singular third-person ）

stopping short （ participle present ）

stopped short （ participle past ）

stopped short （ past ）