制止 zhì zhǐ to curbto put a stop toto stopto checkto limit Example sentences 当你看到有人在医院里抽烟,你会去制止吗? dāng nǐ kàn dào yǒurén zài yīyuàn lǐ chōuyān, nǐ huì qù zhìzhǐ ma? If you saw some people smoking in a hospital, would you go stop them? 一看到有人打架,老师立刻跑去制止他们。 yī kàn dào yǒurén dǎjià, lǎoshī lìkè pǎo qù zhìzhǐ tāmen. When he saw some people fighting, the teacher immediately ran over to stop them