| 词汇 | standstill |
| 释义 | standstill noun[ S ] uk /ˈstænd.stɪl/ us /ˈstænd.stɪl/ a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped: 静止；停顿；停滞 The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.失控的大巴驶入了泥泞的田里，最终停了下来。 Fighting and shortages have brought normal life to a virtual standstill in the city.战火和物资短缺使这座城市的正常生陷于瘫痪。 Immobility anti-jamming be locked in something boxed in budge cataleptic frozen immovably jam jammed lifelessly lock motionless motionlessly pin standing statically stationary stock-still time stands stillidiom transfixed standstill | American Dictionarystandstill noun[ U ] us/ˈstændˌstɪl/ a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped: Bad weather brought construction to a standstill. The truck came to a standstill in the muddy field. standstill | Business Englishstandstill noun[ S ] uk /ˈstændstɪl/us a situation in which all movement or activity has stopped: be at a standstillLabour negotiations are almost at a standstill. bring sth to a standstillThe business was brought to a standstill by the postal workers' dispute. come to a standstill Examples of standstillstandstill A document of 1440 notes that construction of the basilica had been at a standstill for 'about fifteen years'. The insurgents claimed victory for holding their assailants to a standstill. At least equally important, his experience of the sublime brought him to a speechless standstill. The impact of a standstill period between shows was relatively ineffective in breaking up the network (data not shown). In other words: image is dialectics at a standstill. Tensions ran so high that during the early 1860s local government was often close to coming to a standstill. Therefore, if we slow the outer sphere almost to a standstill, the system will reduce to the one associated with the first epicyclic arrangement. They come to a standstill, completely unable to move. Dagbon is economically and politically at a standstill. We thus get the result that each following depression is more severe than the preceding one, with no sign that this process will come to a standstill. At no time are eggs and immature forms entirely absent, feeding is apparently never at a complete standstill, hence there is no respite for the bulb. Transactions in banks came to a standstill. Finally, in 1945, the city was struck by two devastating raids which caused huge destruction and brought the city administration and economy to an effective standstill. Violent clashes with the army and police, as well as strikes and peaceful demonstrations, continued for six months, bringing life in the island to a near standstill. Although the remaining factors are typically less important determinants of the rate of technology evolution, major problems in any one area can bring progress to a near standstill. 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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