| 词汇 | stalled |
| 释义 | stalled past simple and past participle ofstall stall verb uk /stɔːl/ us /stɑːl/ stallverb (ENGINE)[ I or T ] If an engine stalls, or if you stall it, it stops working suddenly and without you intending it to happen: （使）（发动机）熄火 A car may stall due to the driver braking too suddenly.司机踩刹车过猛可能会导致汽车熄火。 I stalled the car twice during my driving test but still managed to pass.我在驾驶考试时两次把车弄熄火，不过还是勉强通过了考试。 Machines - not functioning act up balky blooey break break down brokenness brownout burn out downtime flat malfunction outage seize seize up short circuit shot shudder shut shut (something) down shutdown You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: On the road: driving & operating road vehicles stallverb (DELAY)[ I ] to delay taking action or avoid giving an answer in order to have more time to make a decision or get an advantage: 拖延 stall (for time)She says she'll give me the money next week but I think she's just stalling (for time).她说下周会把钱给我，但我认为她只不过是在拖时间。 [ T ] If you stall a person, you delay them or prevent them from doing something for a period of time: 拖住（某人） I managed to stall him for a few days until I'd got enough money to pay back the loan.我设法拖住了他几天，直到我筹够了还贷款的钱。 stall someone offmainly USThe thief broke into the office while his accomplice stalled off the security guard.小偷趁同伙拖住保安之际，闯进了办公室。 [ I ] to stop making progress: 停止进展 Japan's economic growth has stalled, with industrial production contracting in June for the fourth straight month.日本经济陷入停滞状态，到六月份时工业产出值已连续四个月缩减。 [ T ] If you stall an event, you delay it or prevent it from making progress: 推迟，暂缓;搁置 Commandos stalled the enemy attack by destroying three bridges.突击队破坏了3座桥，拖延了敌人的进攻。 Fears are growing that a tax increase may stall economic recovery.人们越来越担心增税可能会阻碍经济复苏。 Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock hold up inefficiency inefficiently kept kick pigeonhole push raincheck retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve spin stall You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Economics Examples of stalledstalled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nevertheless, insufficient support was forthcoming and by the project had stalled. The model stalled about the same time as research on multiple equilibria did. A draft bill stalled for weeks owing to lack of resources. Growth in the first few years was very steep, then stalled, but then rebound after the 2005 legislative changes. My starting point for this article was the evidence of 'stalled well-being', despite rising personal and national incomes in the affluent countries. The euthanasia debate in particular seems to have become mired in rhetoric and stalled by all-too-familiar arguments. This diagnosis had initially been made when the infant's weight gain stalled at 1100 grams at four months of age. Fortunately, these disagreements have not stalled efforts to identify biological or psychological risk markers or to develop and test early intervention and prevention programs. Proposed improvements in bank regulatory oversight, stalled before the crisis, were now rammed through. If drought and agricultural depression stalled enclosure in the mid-1890s, the onset of the rinderpest epizootic in 1896 lent it a new urgency. Physiotherapists can use this time and the impetus of a new treatment to kick-start a stalled patient's progress. In this model a lesion located on the leading strand has stalled the replication fork. The symbol is used when the expansion gets stalled (that is, one reaches a non-solvable subterm). Negotiations stalled in late 2003, and the 2005 deadline for the agreement passed uncelebrated. At the same time, the programme of poverty alleviation and redistribution has stalled completely. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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