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verb hɔːlthɔlt 1Bring or come to an abrupt stop. 使突然停止；突然停止 with object there is growing pressure to halt the bloodshed 要求停止流血的压力越来越大。 no object she halted in mid sentence 句子说了一半她突然停了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - However, the introduction of the euro will halt the practice that grew up under Milosevic regime of uncontrolled money printing, Krgovic said.
- A last-ditch bid to halt new charges being brought in for a car park at Holland-on-Sea has been thrown out.
- Certainly, at both sets of stalls the procession would halt, garlands would be draped over the Brahmins and political candidates, and more coconuts cracked over the rath.
- The whispered conversation had halted momentarily upon his abrupt arrival, but began again.
- She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark.
- American companies will, in the next few years, come under intense political pressure to halt the loss of jobs to India and China.
- Nobody has ever succeeded in halting the terminal decline.
- Thailand's Nation mass media group said Tuesday it has been pressured to halt radio and TV broadcasts of political news and commentaries.
- The silence was broken as the warder hung the notices, the crowd rushed forward, blocking the road, halting the traffic, and sweeping the police aside.
- This will include driving at a maximum speed of 30 kilometres an hour and dropping off and picking up passengers only after buses have halted exactly at their stops.
- As water gushes down, its speed should be checked, slowly halted and made to glide and then its absorption should be facilitated, he says.
- Scorpio Rising is one rollercoaster rise that doesn't end until the album halts to a complete stop.
- Because Clyde can't make it up some hills if he has to halt at certain stop signs, he has already been chastised for coming to a roll-stop by local police.
- Then his fluent stride was halted when he broke the cannon bone in his right foreleg.
- Just as in the case of the failure of deficit spending, more consumption by household will not halt recessionary pressures.
- Before the flyovers were built, buses would halt at several stops on the road and this was convenient to many who lived or worked around these stops.
- Orkney had protested that the scheme - to halt livestock shipping in winds of force five or more - would disrupt transportation for months.
- Once four or five trusses have formed, pinch out the main growing stem to halt the plant's growth.
- Quite clearly, there is a job of work to be done in terms of our relationship with Indonesia to in some way check or halt this process.
- But the protesters, who are increasingly determined to halt the spread of wind farms, are unconvinced.
Synonyms stop, come to a halt, come to a stop, come to a standstill, come to rest, pull up, draw up, stand still, draw to a stand cease, stop, finish, discontinue, terminate, conclude, come to an end, come to a halt, come to a stop, draw to a close, come to a standstill, be over, be abandoned pause, be broken off, be suspended terminate, end, stop, cease, finish, suspend, bring to a stop, bring to a close, bring to an end, put an end to, put a stop to, break off, wind up arrest, impede, check, curb, stem, staunch, block, stall, hold back informal pull the plug on, put the kibosh on - 1.1in imperative Used as a military command to bring marching soldiers to a stop.
停止行进（用作军队命令） 全连停止前进！ Example sentencesExamples - Company, halt!
- "Right, left, right, left, right, left, halt." "About face." "Forward march."
noun hɔːlthɔlt 1A suspension of movement or activity, typically a temporary one. 暂停，停止，中止 生产停顿。 a bus screeched to a halt 公共汽车嘎的一声停住了。 Example sentencesExamples - Eventually, the party derails and Matty crashes to a halt.
- All activity drew to a halt when Mom baked her cheesecake.
- I for one, would love nothing more than a general stoppage which would bring production in the country to a halt!
- When a vehicle finally comes to a halt, it does so wherever the driver pleases, like a toddler falling asleep in the middle of the living-room floor.
- An epiphany strikes me with the magnificent glory of a holy intervention and instantly brings my seizure to a halt.
- But that is apparently as close as it got before the anomalous signal brought the activities to a halt.
- Drainage activities ground almost to a halt as a result of a lack of funds.
- The Humvee made a hard right and jerked to a halt.
- The 2001 U.S. recession brought Mexican growth to a halt, and foreign investors have begun moving production to lower cost locations in Asia.
- When two siren-blaring ambulances screeched to a halt in front of Yashoda Superspecialities Hospitals, passers-by were alarmed.
- This was necessary, he argues, in part because the physical and cognitive costs of trying to accommodate all the information that was produced would bring the lab to a halt.
- A police spokesman said on arrival in Valencia heavily-armed soldiers and police officers surrounded the area, bringing work at the quarries to a halt.
- On Monday, May 17, the BSE hit the bottom circuit of 10 per cent, twice leading to a halt in trading by three hours.
- But Katrina has forced production in the state to come to a halt.
- As the breeze passed away, they came to a halt, breathing hard, straining to control the sound of their breathing.
- York motorists were hit with road chaos, as accidents and roadworks brought traffic to a halt, and panic-buying closed a busy petrol station.
- After a high speed chase lasting several minutes, the car left the road and slid to a halt.
- Homebuilding activity, forced to a halt during the war, instead of resuming remained at a standstill.
- While the inauguration of the mall was scheduled for 10.23 a.m., the crowd gathered an hour before bringing traffic movement to a halt.
- AAF resumed production last week after closing its operation for nine months due to a halt in the supply of gas from the Arun fields.
Synonyms stop, standstill cessation, termination, stoppage, stopping, close, end, discontinuation, discontinuance break, pause, interval, interruption, interlude, intermission, suspension, rest, respite, hiatus, breathing space, time out informal breather - 1.1British A minor stopping place on a local railway line.
〈英〉（铁路的）小站 Example sentencesExamples - A new railway halt, with maybe an extension of the Dart electrification, would provide the necessary fast link to the city centre.
- In this article Weston Subedge was described as just a halt not a station.
- Among the victims was the Skipton to Ilkley line and about 80 stations and halts in the Aire and Wharfe valleys and in the Bradford area.
- There is a new suburban railway line with excellent little halts by Martin Despang, and a new station for intercity ICE trains has been built on the Berlin-Hanover line.
- There are five halts along the line with an occasional passing loop in the event of more than one train running at the same time.
PhrasesDemand or order a stop. 要求停止；命令停止 he decided to call a halt to all further discussion 他决定要求中止进一步的讨论。 Example sentencesExamples - It calls a halt to everything else across the borough.
- It was a tall order for Irish business to call a halt at such short notice and some annoyance was understandable.
- It is time somebody called a halt to this nonsense or even shouted stop.
- The year 2001 could be the one in which America calls a halt to its long love affair with capital punishment.
- An order by its board of directors called a halt to operations at all production units, sections, services and departments.
- A gentle breeze at low level becomes a dangerous gust at 233 ft, and when the anonometer tells him the wind-speed is around 37 mph, Ditchburn calls a halt to operations.
- He claimed that the probability is that in the course of a telephone conversation on the morning of 10 November Hitler instructed Goebbels to draw up an order calling a halt to the violence.
- A despairing Whitney calls a halt to proceedings.
- The first step taken in halting spending running out of control is to call a halt to the hiring of staff.
- After three hours of walking through the night, Bailey had called a halt and ordered a twenty minute rest.
OriginLate 16th century: originally in the phrase make halt, from German haltmachen, from halten 'to hold'. Rhymesassault, Balt, exalt, fault, malt, salt, smalt, vault adjective hɔːlthɔlt archaic Lame. 跛的，瘸的 if a man were halt or hunch'd Example sentencesExamples - "He who is halt" clearly refers to Zar, who walks with a painful limp because of a leg injury he suffered many years before.
- If a woman were blind, the good wonder-workers would give her back her eyes; if a man were halt, they would give him back his leg.
verb hɔːlthɔlt [no object]archaic Walk with a limp. 跛行 he halted slightly in his walk 他走路稍有些跛。 Example sentencesExamples - Jacob steps forth to meet him halfway, alone, before an army, halting and limping and bowing down to the ground.
- It was then perceptible that he halted slightly in his walk; and, indeed, he had been lame from his birth.
OriginOld English healtian (verb), halt, healt (adjective), of Germanic origin. verbhɔlthôlt 1Bring or come to an abrupt stop. 使突然停止；突然停止 with object there is growing pressure to halt the bloodshed 要求停止流血的压力越来越大。 no object she halted in mid-sentence 句子说了一半她突然停了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark.
- Nobody has ever succeeded in halting the terminal decline.
- Then his fluent stride was halted when he broke the cannon bone in his right foreleg.
- The silence was broken as the warder hung the notices, the crowd rushed forward, blocking the road, halting the traffic, and sweeping the police aside.
- This will include driving at a maximum speed of 30 kilometres an hour and dropping off and picking up passengers only after buses have halted exactly at their stops.
- American companies will, in the next few years, come under intense political pressure to halt the loss of jobs to India and China.
- Once four or five trusses have formed, pinch out the main growing stem to halt the plant's growth.
- Orkney had protested that the scheme - to halt livestock shipping in winds of force five or more - would disrupt transportation for months.
- Scorpio Rising is one rollercoaster rise that doesn't end until the album halts to a complete stop.
- Just as in the case of the failure of deficit spending, more consumption by household will not halt recessionary pressures.
- The whispered conversation had halted momentarily upon his abrupt arrival, but began again.
- Because Clyde can't make it up some hills if he has to halt at certain stop signs, he has already been chastised for coming to a roll-stop by local police.
- Quite clearly, there is a job of work to be done in terms of our relationship with Indonesia to in some way check or halt this process.
- As water gushes down, its speed should be checked, slowly halted and made to glide and then its absorption should be facilitated, he says.
- However, the introduction of the euro will halt the practice that grew up under Milosevic regime of uncontrolled money printing, Krgovic said.
- But the protesters, who are increasingly determined to halt the spread of wind farms, are unconvinced.
- Before the flyovers were built, buses would halt at several stops on the road and this was convenient to many who lived or worked around these stops.
- A last-ditch bid to halt new charges being brought in for a car park at Holland-on-Sea has been thrown out.
- Thailand's Nation mass media group said Tuesday it has been pressured to halt radio and TV broadcasts of political news and commentaries.
- Certainly, at both sets of stalls the procession would halt, garlands would be draped over the Brahmins and political candidates, and more coconuts cracked over the rath.
Synonyms stop, come to a halt, come to a stop, come to a standstill, come to rest, pull up, draw up, stand still, draw to a stand cease, stop, finish, discontinue, terminate, conclude, come to an end, come to a halt, come to a stop, draw to a close, come to a standstill, be over, be abandoned terminate, end, stop, cease, finish, suspend, bring to a stop, bring to a close, bring to an end, put an end to, put a stop to, break off, wind up - 1.1in imperative Used as a military command to bring marching soldiers to a stop.
停止行进（用作军队命令） 全连停止前进！ Example sentencesExamples - Company, halt!
- "Right, left, right, left, right, left, halt." "About face." "Forward march."
nounhɔlthôlt A suspension of movement or activity, typically a temporary one. 暂停，停止，中止 生产停顿。 a bus screeched to a halt 公共汽车嘎的一声停住了。 Example sentencesExamples - An epiphany strikes me with the magnificent glory of a holy intervention and instantly brings my seizure to a halt.
- When two siren-blaring ambulances screeched to a halt in front of Yashoda Superspecialities Hospitals, passers-by were alarmed.
- A police spokesman said on arrival in Valencia heavily-armed soldiers and police officers surrounded the area, bringing work at the quarries to a halt.
- All activity drew to a halt when Mom baked her cheesecake.
- The Humvee made a hard right and jerked to a halt.
- York motorists were hit with road chaos, as accidents and roadworks brought traffic to a halt, and panic-buying closed a busy petrol station.
- After a high speed chase lasting several minutes, the car left the road and slid to a halt.
- When a vehicle finally comes to a halt, it does so wherever the driver pleases, like a toddler falling asleep in the middle of the living-room floor.
- Homebuilding activity, forced to a halt during the war, instead of resuming remained at a standstill.
- AAF resumed production last week after closing its operation for nine months due to a halt in the supply of gas from the Arun fields.
- Eventually, the party derails and Matty crashes to a halt.
- Drainage activities ground almost to a halt as a result of a lack of funds.
- I for one, would love nothing more than a general stoppage which would bring production in the country to a halt!
- While the inauguration of the mall was scheduled for 10.23 a.m., the crowd gathered an hour before bringing traffic movement to a halt.
- But Katrina has forced production in the state to come to a halt.
- As the breeze passed away, they came to a halt, breathing hard, straining to control the sound of their breathing.
- But that is apparently as close as it got before the anomalous signal brought the activities to a halt.
- The 2001 U.S. recession brought Mexican growth to a halt, and foreign investors have begun moving production to lower cost locations in Asia.
- This was necessary, he argues, in part because the physical and cognitive costs of trying to accommodate all the information that was produced would bring the lab to a halt.
- On Monday, May 17, the BSE hit the bottom circuit of 10 per cent, twice leading to a halt in trading by three hours.
Synonyms stop, standstill cessation, termination, stoppage, stopping, close, end, discontinuation, discontinuance
PhrasesDemand or order a stop. 要求停止；命令停止 he decided to call a halt to all further discussion 他决定要求中止进一步的讨论。 Example sentencesExamples - A despairing Whitney calls a halt to proceedings.
- After three hours of walking through the night, Bailey had called a halt and ordered a twenty minute rest.
- It calls a halt to everything else across the borough.
- It is time somebody called a halt to this nonsense or even shouted stop.
- It was a tall order for Irish business to call a halt at such short notice and some annoyance was understandable.
- The year 2001 could be the one in which America calls a halt to its long love affair with capital punishment.
- A gentle breeze at low level becomes a dangerous gust at 233 ft, and when the anonometer tells him the wind-speed is around 37 mph, Ditchburn calls a halt to operations.
- An order by its board of directors called a halt to operations at all production units, sections, services and departments.
- The first step taken in halting spending running out of control is to call a halt to the hiring of staff.
- He claimed that the probability is that in the course of a telephone conversation on the morning of 10 November Hitler instructed Goebbels to draw up an order calling a halt to the violence.
OriginLate 16th century: originally in the phrase make halt, from German haltmachen, from halten ‘to hold’. adjectivehɔlthôlt archaic Lame. 跛的，瘸的 Example sentencesExamples - If a woman were blind, the good wonder-workers would give her back her eyes; if a man were halt, they would give him back his leg.
- "He who is halt" clearly refers to Zar, who walks with a painful limp because of a leg injury he suffered many years before.
verbhɔlthôlt [no object]archaic Walk with a limp. 跛行 he halted slightly in his walk 他走路稍有些跛。 Example sentencesExamples - It was then perceptible that he halted slightly in his walk; and, indeed, he had been lame from his birth.
- Jacob steps forth to meet him halfway, alone, before an army, halting and limping and bowing down to the ground.
OriginOld English healtian (verb), halt, healt (adjective), of Germanic origin. |