cease
单词辨析：
普通用词，指迅速或突然地中止某一行为、活动或状态；后接动名词时，表示直接停止做某事；后接动词不定式时，表示停下来去做某事。
The machine stopped working.
机器停止运转了。
Seeing a man lying on the road, the driver stopped his car.
司机发现路上躺着一个人，便急忙刹车。
I stopped to see what had happened.
我停下来去看发生了什么事。
指逐渐结束某一活动或状态，常含永久性终止之意，后接动名词或动词不定式均可，且意思基本不变。
The old woman ceased breathing the night before.
老妇人前一天晚上停止了呼吸。
Both sides agreed to cease the war.
双方都同意结束这场战争。
She ceased to be a member of the association.
她不再是协会会员。
指停止前进或中止活动、发展等。
The train suddenly halted.
火车突然停了下来。
The soldiers halted and rested from their march.
士兵们停止前进，稍作休息。
Our company halted the operations during the strike.
罢工期间，我们公司暂止了业务。
相关例句：
You cease to grow once you stop learning.
一旦你停止学习，你就停止了成长。
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
当你停止梦想的时候，你就停止了生存。
I think and think and cannot cease from thinking.
我想了又想，一直想个没完。
We worked without cease to get the project finished on time.
“我们一刻不停地工作，准时完成了项目”；
The Tundra Times, a weekly newspaper in Alaska, ceased publication this week.
阿拉斯加的周报《苔原时报》本周停刊了。
At one o'clock the rain had ceased.
一点时，雨已停了。