cease to be

基本解釋

If he did he would cease to be an artist.
如果他看到了，就不再是藝術(shù)家。
If there were wholesale abandonment of dollar pegs, it might cease to be so.
如果出現(xiàn)大規(guī)模的放棄美元釘住，這也會(huì)很快的停止的。
This would deny its own totalitarian nature and it would cease to be itself.
這樣，就否認(rèn)了它的極權(quán)性質(zhì)，而它也將不再是那個(gè)極權(quán)的自己。

But this is the great danger America faces -- that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups, each seeking to satisfy private wants.
How it ends up in the long run for the Dutch is that the Dutch cease to be a great power.
荷蘭長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)之后的下場(chǎng),便是荷蘭國(guó)力日衰,風(fēng)光不再
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選
Being a person is something you can go through for a period of time and cease to be.
作為人的存在是可以經(jīng)歷一段時(shí)間然后停止的。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

They cease to be interested in learning more or hearing perspectives that challenge their decisions.
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