He paused to have a cigarette.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
停下来
to stop
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to stop
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 停下来 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 停下来 appears in 29 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She stopped to smoke a cigarette.
The horse stopped and wouldn't move.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 停下来.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 停下来.
Directly before
- 他停下来4
- 她停下来3
- 我们停下来2
- 你停下来2
- 车停下来2
Directly after
- 停下来之前3
- 停下来的2
- 停下来了2
- 停下来抽根烟1
- 停下来想一想1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 停下来
What does 停下来 mean in Chinese?
停下来 (tíngxiàlái) means to stop.
How do you pronounce 停下来?
停下来 is pronounced tíngxiàlái.
Is 停下来 an HSK word?
停下来 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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