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
- 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。 - Many developing nations are also in the midst of an economic slowdown, as Chinese demand for raw materials wanes and domestic credit booms grind to a halt.
许多发展中国家也已出现经济放缓,这是因为中国对原材料的需求大幅降低,国内信贷繁荣慢慢走到终点。 - 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。 - Without government action, he said, there was a risk that financial sector could grind to a halt.
他说,政府如果无所作为,金融体系就有完全停摆的危险。 - 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。 - Their proposal, published in the journal Physical Review D, claimed dark energy does not exist and that time was winding down to the point when it would finally grind to a halt long after the planet ceased to exist.
他们的理论发表在《物理评论(基本粒子、场论、宇宙学)》上,文章说宇宙中不存在暗能量。当地球消失后,时间也会一点点变慢,最终完全停止。 - The story is the same in almost every developed country: the bursting of the real estate bubble has caused property values to plummet, credit markets to seize up, and deal-flow to grind to a halt.
几乎每个发达国家的情形都一样:房地产泡沫破裂,导致房产价值暴跌、信贷市场失灵以及交易日趋枯竭。 - 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。 - In winter they almost grind to a halt.
到了冬天,它们会停止活动。