put an end to sth.简单

“They bought the seedlings and closed them down,” complained Paul Arnold, a partner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures, putting an end to businesses that might one day turn into competitors.

“他们买下这些幼苗，然后把它们关掉了，”总部位于旧金山的Switch Ventures的合伙人保罗·阿诺德抱怨道，这样就终结了那些有朝一日可能成为竞争对手的企业。

At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

至少，它把我们从轻松致富、住更大房子的全民狂热梦想中唤醒，并为个人肆意挥霍的时代画上了必要的句号。