stop 普通用词,其使用范围广泛,可指停止任何行动、活动或状态.但需注意 stop
to do sth. 和 stop doing sth. 的区别.stop to do sth. 指停下来（为了）去做另
一件事,而stop doing sth. 指停止手中正在做的事.
1）He came to the new building and stoppedsuddenly.
他来到新大楼前突然停了下来.
2）A police car drew abreast of us and signalled us to stop.
一辆警车开过来与我们并排,示意我们停下来.
3）The child was killed when a car failed to stop at the crossing.
汽车在人行横道线未能停车,结果把小孩撞死了.
4） Istopped to read the notices on the bulletin board.
我停了下来阅读公告栏上的通告.
5）There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it.
如果停下来好好想想的话,就会发觉整件事情相当蹊跷.
6）Stop shouting -- you're giving me a headache!
别喊了,你喊得我头都痛了.
7）She wanted him to stop being so cool, so detached, so cynical.
她希望他不再那么冷酷无情,那么无动于衷,那么愤世嫉俗.
cease 正式用词,指停止某行动或活动,往往含某事不再存在或完全停止或终止.表示不再做
某事或停止某种状态,常用 cease to do sth. 表示停止正在做的事,也可说 cease doing
sth. .
1）The general ordered the troop to cease fire.
将军命令部队停火.
2）Death occurs when vital organs, such as heart or lungs, cease to function.
当重要器官如心脏和肺部停止功能死亡就发生.
3）When pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure.
当享受成为生活的主要事务时,它就不再是一种享受.
4）Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想.当幻想没有了以后,你还可以生存,但是你虽生犹死.
5）If we do not confront and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we
protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow. We become trapped inside
a shell of our own making.
如果我们不能去正视并克服这些内在的恐惧和疑虑,如果我们过于自我保护,那么我们就
会停止成长,陷进自己营造的壳里面.
6）When I want over to them, they ceased talking and pretended to do something
else.
当我向他们走去,他们便停止谈话,假装在做其它的事情.
7）Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon
the dangers involved and the difficulties,and concentrate instead upon the
opptunity — for there is always opportunity in crisis.
让我们建议处在危机之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上,相反
而要集中在机会上 —— 因为危机中总是存在着机会.
halt 常指使正在运动中的人或物停下来,侧重突然地、决定性地终止或停止某一活
动.可用作动词和名词.
1）The officer halted his troops for a rest.
军官下令部队停止前进休息一下.
2）Work was halted when the machine broke down.
机器出故障时,工作停了下来.
3）She held her hand out flat, to halt him.
她平伸出一只手掌,要挡住他.
4）They criticised the government for failing to halt economic decline.
他他批评政府未能遏止经济下滑.
5）Preserving the atmosphere, by both protecting the ozone layer and haltingthe greenhouse effect, is an environmental necessity.
通过保护臭氧层和防止温室效应来保护大气层是环境所需要的.
6）Production has come to a halt owing to the lack of raw materials.
由于缺少原料,生产已陷入停顿.
7）As a result of the strike, bus services in the city are practically at a halt.
由于罢工,市内的公共汽车交通实际上停顿下来了.
8）The teacher cried halt on the fighting between the two boys.
老师大声斥呵,要那两个正在打架的男生立即住手.
pause 指暂时的、瞬间的中途停止,然而还会继续进行.可用作动词和名词.
1）Pause before you cross the road.
过马路之前要先停步.
2）She paused a moment before going on with the story.
她停了一会儿,接着继续讲这个故事.
3）You have three chances to pause the game
你有三次暂停游戏的机会.
4）Whenever input is required, the data collection will pause and a dialog box
with the approprpaite request is displayed.
每当需要输入时,数据收集将暂停,并显示一个带有相应请求的对话框.
5）After a pause the audience Broke into cheers.
短暂的沉静后,听众突然爆发出欢呼声.
6）He made a short pause and then went on reading.
他略顿了一下然后继续念下去.
7）There was a considerable pause, while they canvassed inwardly over the matter.
他们停了好一阵没有做声,各人都在心里盘算着这桩事情.
quit 可表示停止某事,相当于stop, cease 或 discontinue 的意思；也可表示“放
弃”、“离开”或“退出”的意思.
1）She quit what she was doing tohelp me paint the house.
她停下手中的活来帮我粉刷房子.
2）Quit acting like you didn't know.
别装得像你不知道似的.
3）He decided to quit smoking for the sake of health.
为了健康起见,他决定戒烟.
4）Owing to the falling health, Mr. Smith had to quithis job.
由于健康状况下降,史密斯先生不得不辞职.
5）Steve quit when he realized that he could not win.
知道自己不能获胜,史蒂夫退出了比赛.
6）There are no failures in life, only those who quit before success.
生活中没有失败者,只有那些在成功前就放弃的人.
7）We should financially help those students who quit school due to poverty.
我们必须资助那些因贫困而辍学的学生.
suspend=“中”断,“中”止,有点推迟的味道,之后还可以继续.譬如你有张健身卡,会员期为一年,你中间有事不能去,你可以去和gym的人说你要从6月份开始suspend你的会员期直到8月,8月回去之后还可以继续
halt=很突然地停止,是“终”止,譬如说急刹车
cease=慢慢停止（永久性停止）,譬如说cease out,灭绝,绝迹
cease :v.终止,停止,主要指停止已存在的一种状态或行为,多用于书面语.如：
The animal has ceased to exist. 这种动物已经不复存在了.
halt :v.使终止,停止.如：
The soldiers halted for a short rest. 士兵停下休息一会儿.
stop: v阻止,使中断,主要用来指停止正在进行的动作或行为,要注意后跟不定式及动名词的不同[不定式表示还未做的事；动名词表示已经做的事].如：
He stopped to talk with me .他停下来跟我说话.
He stopped talking.他停止说话.