| 词汇 | grind to a halt |
| 释义 | grind to a haltgrind to a halt (also come to a grinding halt) a) STOP MOVINGif a vehicle grinds to a halt, it stops gradually 〔车辆〕慢慢停下来 Traffic ground to a halt as it approached the accident site. 车辆在靠近事故现场时慢慢停了下来。 b) STOP HAPPENINGif a country, organization, or process grinds to a halt, its activity or the process gradually stops 〔国家、组织或进程〕逐渐停顿，慢慢瘫痪 After two days the talks had ground to a halt. 两天之后，谈判进行不下去了。 Examples from the Corpus grind to a halt• Treasury yield drops However, the rally in U. S. Treasuries ground to a halt.• But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.• Offices, factories, industry, communications, transport ... all of it grinding to a halt.• The co-op went bankrupt during the Great Depression, said Gross, and maintenance slowly ground to a halt.• The tiny pens, scrawling in palsied traces on endless white ribbons of paper, slowly ground to a halt.• Traffic ground to a halt as we got closer to the accident.• Production ground to a halt at five of the factories.• It seemed as though things had ground to a halt in there.• Business ground to a halt throughout much of the Northeast, South and Midwest.• Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt, to see the possible outcome. → grind to a halt at grind1(2) |
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