单词grind-to-a-halt
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The reactions grind to a halt over the next few days, as the falling Jenga towers run out of other towers they can actually hit.
在接下来的几天，反应渐渐停止，就像积木堆撞倒其他塔一样。
I was determined not to let the publics business grind to a halt and was gratified that the White House staff and cabinet felt the same way.
我决定不去打搅公众的注意力，并欣慰地看到白宫工作人员和内阁成员也这样想。
If all the migrants were to leave, Beijing would grind to a halt.
那是因为我们希想让他们留下来，我们需要他们留下来；如果农民工都走了，北京就会陷入停顿。
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。
The free flow of new ideas slows down and newer, better ways of doing things grind to a halt.
新想法的自由交流变得缓慢，那么更新的更好的做事方式就会停滞不前了。
At the beginning of the recent global financial crisis, many feared that the Chinese growth engine would grind to a halt.
在最近的全球金融危机开始之初，许多人担忧中国经济增长引擎会熄火。
Every thirty seconds, the server experiences a huge storm of disk-writing activity, causing the system to nearly grind to a halt.
每隔30秒，服务器就会遇到磁盘写活动高峰，导致系统几乎陷于停顿。
"Sometimes we feel the whole place is about to grind to a halt, " sighs a prominent businessman.
一位声名显赫的商人叹道，“有时候我们会觉得整个这个地方会突然停止运转。”
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。
Rather, the whole business world will face the storm of the century and commerce could literally grind to a halt.
相反，整个世界将面临世纪风暴，商业将基本停滞。