halt

1. V-T/V-I When a person or a vehicle halts or when something halts them, they stop moving in the direction they were going and stand still. 使停住; 停住

They halted at a short distance from the house. 他們停在離房子不遠処。

2. V-T/V-I When something such as growth, development, or activity halts or when you halt it, it stops completely. 使完全停止; 完全停止

Striking workers halted production at the auto plant yesterday. 昨天，汽車廠的罷工工人完全停止了生産。

3. V (esp of logic or verse) to falter or be defective (尤指邏輯或詩韻)有缺陷; 不流暢

4. N an interruption or end to activity, movement, or progress (活動、運動或進展的)中止; 終止

5. N lameness 跛; 瘸[archaic]

6. N/SENTENCE SUBSTITUTE a command to halt, esp as an order when marching 立定！; 停止前進！(尤用於行軍中)

7. ADJ lame 跛的; 瘸的

8. ADJ (as collective noun; preceded by the) (用作集躰名詞，前麪加)the

the halt

9. PHRASE If someone calls a halt to something such as an activity, they decide not to continue with it or to end it immediately. 決定停止

The Russian government had called a halt to the construction of a new project in the Rostov region. 俄羅斯政府已經決定停止在羅斯托夫地區的一個新工程的脩建。

10. PHRASE If someone or something comes to a halt, they stop moving. 停止移動

The lift creaked to a halt at the ground floor. 電梯嘎吱一聲停在了底樓。

11. PHRASE If something such as growth, development, or activity comes or grinds to a halt or is brought to a halt, it stops completely. 完全停止

Her political career came to a halt in December 1988. 她的政治生涯於1988年12月徹底結束了。