grind to a halt
英 [ɡraɪnd tu ə hɔːlt]
美 [ɡraɪnd tu ə hɔːlt]
逐渐停止; 慢慢瘫痪; （车辆）声音刺耳地缓缓停下
英英释义
verb
双语例句
- We saw the automobile grind to a halt when the engine blew up.
我们看见那辆车因为发动机出故障而慢慢地停下来了。 - All it takes is a single loaded comment tossed into any SOA discussion ( which then becomes a rhetorical hand grenade), and you can watch all useful conversation grind to a halt.
只需要在任何SOA讨论中扔出一句火药味十足的话（随后将成为一个修辞“手榴弹”），然后就可以看着原本有用的讨论瞬时间陷入一片静寂。 - Greece is expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike.
希腊数十万国企和私营企业职工举行大罢工，希腊将有可能第二次在一个月之内逐渐瘫痪。 - If we don't do something soon, the whole theatre industry could grind to a halt.
如果我们不尽快采取措施，整个戏剧行业将会出现萧条。 - Why doesn't the whole economy grind to a halt?
为什么整个经济没有停顿下来？ - But without them, industries worth trillions of dollars would grind to a halt.
但如果没有稀土，价值数万亿美元的工业都得渐渐停产。 - If trade doesn't improve soon, the industry will grind to a halt.
如果商业不迅速恢复景气，工业就要陷入停顿。 - Without it everything would grind to a halt.
没有了信任，一切活动都将趋于停滞。 - Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, said the British economy required a "painful" adjustment to higher energy and food prices, predicting the economy would grind to a halt for a year before recovering.
英国央行行长默文金（mervynking）表示，英国经济需要经历一次“痛苦的”调整，以适应更高的能源和食品价格，他预测英国经济将陷于停顿，一年之后才会复苏。 - He cites capacitors and connectors, without which much of the modern world would grind to a halt.
他举了电容器和连接器的例子，没有这两样产品，现代世界将大面积陷入停顿。