英语短语词组close the book on sth的释义、翻译、用法及例句-英语短语词组词典

短语	close the book on sth
释义	close the book on sth to stop working on something, especially a police operation, because it is not making any progress停止做某事;〔尤指警方〕停止调查某事:•Detectives had closed the book on the Hornsey Murders case three years previously.警探三年前就停止了对霍恩赛谋杀案的调查。⇒CLOSING DATE,CLOSING TIME⇒shut / close the door on sth at DOOR(9)⇒close your eyes to sth at EYE¹ (16)close the book on sthto stop doing sth because you no longer believe you will be successful or will find a solution（因相信不会成功或没有结论而）放弃The police have closed the book on the case(= they have stopped trying to solve it).警方已经放弃侦破此案。
随便看	fall into contempt fall into decay fall into discredit fall into disfavour fall into disorder fall into disrepute fall into disuse fall into error fall into line fall into line / bring sb into line fall into line with fall into place fall into ranks fall into ruin fall into sb's hands/the hands of sb fall into sb’s hands fall into step fall into step (beside/with sb) fall into step (with) fall into step (with sb) fall into sth fall into talk (with) fall into the clutches of fall into the hands / clutches of sb fall into the position of

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