halt
halt 英 [hɔ:lt] 美 [hɔlt]
vi. 停止；暂停 n. 停止；暂停；休息
进行时:halting 过去式:halted 过去分词:halted 第三人称单数:halts 名词复数:halts
- Whether it's used as a noun or a verb, the word halt means stop. You can remember this by remembering that when you step on the brake to halt your car (verb), it comes to a halt (noun).
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- vi. 停止；暂停
- n. 停止；暂停；休息
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1. She walked towards him and then halted.
她向他走去，然后停下。
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2. ‘Halt!’ the Major ordered .
“立定！”少校发出命令。
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3. The trial was halted after the first week.
第一周结束后，审判暂停。
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4. Work came to a halt when the machine broke down.
机器一坏，工作便停了下来。
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5. The car skidded to a halt.
汽车打滑一段后停了下来。
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6. Strikes have led to a halt in production.
罢工已经使生产陷于停顿。
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7. They decided it was time to call a halt to the project .
他们决定该叫停这项工程了。
- halt (adj.) "lame," in Old English lemphalt "limping," from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian halt, Old Norse haltr, Old High German halz, Gothic halts "lame"), from PIE *keld-, from root *kel- (1) "to strike, cut," with derivatives meaning "something broken or cut off" (source also of Russian koldyka "lame," Greek kolobos "broken, curtailed"). The noun meaning "one who limps; the lame collectively" is from c. 1200.
- halt (n.) "a stop, a halting," 1590s, from French halte (16c.) or Italian alto, ultimately from German Halt, imperative from Old High German halten "to hold" (see hold (v.)). A German military command borrowed into the Romanic languages 16c.
- halt (v.1) "make a halt," 1650s, from halt (n.). As a command word, attested from 1796. Related: Halted; halting.
- halt (v.2) "to walk unsteadily, move with a limping gait," early 14c., from Old English haltian (Anglian), healtian (West Saxon), "to limp, be lame; to hesitate," from Proto-Germanic *halton (source also of Old Saxon halton, Middle Dutch halten, Old High German halzen), derivative verb from the source of halt (adj.). Figurative use from early 15c. Related: Halted; halting.
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