If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
例句
Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America...福特从未停止过劝说他返回美国。The magazine will desist from such language after receiving complaints...杂志接到投诉之后将杜绝使用此类语言。
英汉词典释义
vi.
停止
I asked him to desist from abusing me in private to newspaper editors.我要求他停止私下向各报馆编辑诽谤我。