halt
verb /hɔːlt/, /hɒlt/
/hɔːlt/
[intransitive, transitive]动词形式
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they halt | /hɔːlt/, /hɒlt/ /hɔːlt/ |
| he / she / it halts | /hɔːlts/, /hɒlts/ /hɔːlts/ |
| past simple halted | /ˈhɔːltɪd/, /ˈhɒltɪd/ /ˈhɔːltɪd/ |
| past participle halted | /ˈhɔːltɪd/, /ˈhɒltɪd/ /ˈhɔːltɪd/ |
| -ing form halting | /ˈhɔːltɪŋ/, /ˈhɒltɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːltɪŋ/ |
- to stop; to make somebody/something stop
（使）停止，停下 - She walked towards him and then halted.
她向他走去，然后停下。 - ‘Halt!’ the Major ordered (= used as a command to soldiers).
“立定！” 少校发出命令。 - halt somebody/something The police were halting traffic on the parade route.
警察正阻止游行路线上的车辆前行。 - The trial was halted after the first week.
第一周结束后，审判暂停。
- A sudden shout made them halt in their tracks and look around.
突如其来的一声喊叫令他们止步张望。 - All these ideas for expansion were abruptly halted by the outbreak of war.
所有的拓展构思都因战争爆发而突然搁置下来。 - The strike effectively halted production at the factory.
罢工使该厂的生产实际上陷于停顿。 - We are failing to halt the destruction of the rainforest.
我们未能制止对热带雨林的破坏。 - She criticized his failure to halt the slide in the government's unpopularity.
她批评他未能阻止政府不受欢迎的下滑。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- virtually
- effectively
- abruptly
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- threaten to
- …
- halt in your tracks
- halt something in its tracks
词源late 16th cent.: originally in the phrase make halt, from German haltmachen, from halten ‘to hold’. - She walked towards him and then halted.
Idioms
stop/halt somebody in their tracks | stop/halt/freeze in your tracks
- to suddenly make somebody stop by frightening or surprising them; to suddenly stop because something has frightened or surprised you
（使由于恐惧或吃惊）突然止步；（使）怔住 - The question stopped Alice in her tracks.
这个问题问得艾丽斯张口结舌无以答对。 - Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks: what was he doing?
突然，他突然停下脚步:他在干什么？ - (figurative) The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes.
免疫方案阻止了这种疾病的曼延。
- The question stopped Alice in her tracks.