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1

（＝中止する）to stop; to cease; to leave off; to break off; to knock off; to discontinue; to end; to put an end to （anything）

用例

• 冗談止せ
  Stop joking!
  No more of your jokes!

• ばかな真似を止せ
  No more of this folly!
  Enough of this folly!
• もう仕事を止して好い時間だ
  It is time to leave off work―knock off work.
• 僕が行くと皆話を止す
  They stop talking―cease talking―leave off talking―at my approach.
• 人間は戦争を止さない
  Man will never cease from strife.
• この新聞は面白くないから止そう
  I will stop taking this paper, for it is poor reading.
• しばらくドイツ語を止している
  I have discontinued the study of German for some time.
• 彼は演説の真中で急に止した
  He broke off in the midst of his speech.

〈以下特例〉

用例

• 銀行と取引を中止す
  to close an account with a bank

• 人と交際を中止す
  to drop an acquaintance
• 彼は誰が来ても読書を止さない
  Whoever may come, he goes on reading.
• 彼は医者に注意されても酒を止さぬ
  He keeps on drinking in defiance of his doctor's warning.
• 僕はまだ同窓と文通を止さぬ
  I still keep up correspondence with my college friends.
• 先方が謝罪しなけりゃこのけんかは止されぬ
  If the other party will not apologize, the affair must proceed―go on.
• もう馬車を止そう
  I will put down my carriage
  The carriage must go.

2

（＝為そうと思ったことをせぬ）not to do （anything）; to desist from （the attempt）

用例

• 止せ
  Don't!
  Have done!

• 止せやい
  Out upon it!
  Out upon you!
• 今日は止そう
  I will not do it today.
• 今日は行くのを止そう
  I will not go today.
• そんなことはお止しなさい
  You may spare yourself the trouble.
• 止せば好いのに
  He might have spared himself the trouble.
• 仲裁などは君の柄に無いから止すがよい
  You ought to desist from the attempt, for mediation is out of your character.
• そんな骨の折れることは止した方が好くはないか
  Hadn't you better desist from such an arduous attempt?
• まあ止しやしょう
  I would rather not.
• 止せばよかった
  I have done it once too often.
• 行くのを止して手紙をやろう
  I will write instead of going.
• 勉強を止して遊ぼうじゃないか
  Let us play instead of working.
• 詳しいことは止して要点だけを簡単に述べておきます
  I shall only touch on the chief points instead of going into details.
• 彼はその取引を止したと言っている
  He has broken off the bargain―declared off the bargain.
• 君が入らなけりゃ僕も止す
  If you will not join, I will beg off―cry off.
• 玉突きか、近頃止しているから下手になったろう
  Billiards? I am rather out of practice.

3

（＝断念する）to abandon （the attempt）; to give up （the attempt）

用例

• 酒を止す、タバコを止す
  to give up drinking―give up smoking

• 酒を止した
  I have given up drinking―drunk my last cup.
• タバコを止した
  I have given up smoking―smoked my last pipe.
• 彼は酒が好きで止されぬ
  He has an unconquerable love for drink
  He is an inveterate drunkard.
• 僕はどうしてもタバコが止されぬ
  Nothing can make me give up smoking
  I am an inveterate smoker.
• この目が治らなけりゃ学問を止さなけりゃならぬ
  If my eyes do not get better, I shall have to give up my studies.
• とうとう駄目だから止した
  I gave up the attempt in despair―gave it up as a bad job.
• 僕は金が出ないから洋行を止した
  I have given up the idea of going abroad, for I can't find the means.
• 誰が何と言ってもこのことばかりは止されぬ
  Nobody can deter me from the step.

4

（＝辞職する、廃業する）to resign （one's office）; to retire from （business）; to leave; to quit

用例

• 彼は役所を止した
  He has resigned his office―left office.

• 学校を止そうと思う
  I think I will leave school.
• あの時半途に学校を止さなければよかった
  I wish I had not left school half-way.
• 先生を止して実業界へ入る者がある
  Some men quit teaching and go into business―leave teaching for business.
• 要求を容れなけりゃ僕は止す
  If they will not comply with my demands, I will leave.

5

（＝廃す）to abolish; to do away with （anything）

• 儀式を止して無礼講にしようじゃないか
  Let us do away with ceremony!
  Let all ceremony be done away with!