halt
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they halt | |
| he / she / it halts | |
| past simple halted | |
| past participle halted | |
| -ing form halting |
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。
Extra ExamplesA 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- virtually
- effectively
- abruptly
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- threaten to
- …
- halt in your tracks
- halt something in its tracks
Word Originlate 16th cent.: originally in the phrase make halt, from German haltmachen, from halten ‘to hold’.
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。