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，然後停下。 ‘Halt!’ the Major ordered (= used as a command to soldiers). “立定！” 少校發出命令。 - halt somebody/something
The police were halting traffic on the parade route. 警察正阻止遊行路線上的車輛前行。 The trial was halted after the first week. 第一周結束後，審判暫停。
Extra ExamplesA sudden shout made them halt in their tracks and look around. 突如其來的一聲喊叫令他們止步張望。 All these ideas for expansion were abruptly halted by the outbreak of war. 所有的拓展構思都因戰爭爆發而突然擱置下來。 The strike effectively halted production at the factory. 罷工使該廠的生産實際上陷於停頓。 We are failing to halt the destruction of the rainforest. 我們未能制止對熱帶雨林的破壞。 She criticized his failure to halt the slide in the government's unpopularity. 她批評他未能阻止政府不受歡迎的下滑。
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 （使由於恐懼或吃驚）突然止步；（使）怔住 The question stopped Alice in her tracks. 這個問題問得艾麗斯張口結舌無以答對。 Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks: what was he doing? 突然，他突然停下腳步:他在幹什麽？ - (figurative)
The disease was stopped in its tracks by immunization programmes. 免疫方案阻止了這種疾病的曼延。