喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuː/停止；停產；中止

    to stop doing, making, or providing something that you used to do or offer regularly.

    示範例句 · Example

    Bus route 51 is being discontinued next month.

    逐字公車路線 51 下個月正在被停止。

    「discontinue」是「把本來一直做、一直生產、一直提供的東西停下來」。常見在公告、產品、班次、課程：discontinue a product（停產）、a bus route is being discontinued（這條公車停駛）、discontinue treatment（停止療程）。跟 stop 比，stop 日常什麼都能停；discontinue 多半是「原本長期供應／進行的東西不再繼續」。跟 phase out 比，phase out 是慢慢分階段停；discontinue 可以一次宣布停。核心畫面可以想成：本來一直在 continue 的事，前面加了 dis-，就變成「不再繼續」。

    常見搭配

    • discontinue a product / model

      停產某個產品／型號

      stop making or selling a product

      They will discontinue the old phone model next year.

    • discontinue a service / course / route

      停止某項服務／課程／路線

      stop providing a service, class, or transport line

      The school may discontinue the after-school art course.

    • discontinue treatment

      停止治療／療程

      stop giving or taking a course of medical care

      Please ask the doctor before you discontinue treatment.

    • be discontinued

      被停掉／停產／停開

      be stopped so it is no longer available or made

      That flavor was discontinued, so we cannot buy it anymore.

    • a discontinued product / pattern

      已停產的產品／圖樣

      something that is no longer made or sold

      Mum found a discontinued china pattern in the old shop.

    意思相近

    stopendceasehaltterminatephase out

core核心畫面

Picture something that had been running on a regular schedule — a bus route, a product line, a course of pills — and then a decision that it will not run again. Discontinue is that decision. The word carries the regularity inside it: you can only discontinue what was going on repeatedly.

可以想成：一件本來固定在進行的事——一條公車路線、一款產品、一個療程——然後有人決定它不再繼續了。discontinue 就是這個決定。這個字裡面藏著「本來是固定在做的」：只做過一次的事不會用它，得是原本持續或反覆進行的東西，才談得上停掉。

同家族的字

過去式 discontinued過去分詞 discontinued-ing discontinuing三單 discontinues

意思相近

stopendceasehaltterminatephase out

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

discontinueverb/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnju/

  • 1

    To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.

    • They plan to discontinue that design.
    • I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.
  • 2

    To consciously cease the ingestion or administration of (a pharmaceutical drug).

    • AZT, the only AIDS treatment fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is extremely toxic, and many people with AIDS cannot cake it or must discontinue taking it after some period of time.

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