grind to a halt

We saw the automobile grind to a halt when the engine blew up .

我们看见那辆车因为发动机出故障而慢慢地停下来了。

Why doesn 't the whole economy grind to a halt ?

为什么整个经济没有停顿下来？

Without it everything would grind to a halt .

没有了信任，一切活动都将趋于停滞。

If trade doesn 't improve soon , the industry will grind to a halt .

如果商业不迅速恢复景气，工业就要陷入停顿。

Without government action , he said , there was a risk that financial sector could grind to a halt .

他说，政府如果无所作为，金融体系就有完全停摆的危险。

If we don 't do something soon , the whole theatre industry could grind to a halt .

如果我们不尽快采取措施，整个戏剧行业将会出现萧条。

In winter they almost grind to a halt .

到了冬天，它们会停止活动。

But on the current evidence don 't expect America 's recovery to grind to a halt .

但是就目前的情况来看，别指望美国的复苏会就此停止。

But without them , industries worth trillions of dollars would grind to a halt .

但如果没有稀土，价值数万亿美元的工业都得渐渐停产。

He cites capacitors and connectors , without which much of the modern world would grind to a halt .

他举了电容器和连接器的例子，没有这两样产品，现代世界将大面积陷入停顿。

The city authorities are rushing to find empty spots for coach parking before the city 's roads grind to a halt .

福冈市政府正忙着为旅游大巴找到新的停车位，以免城市交通陷入停顿。

If each of them demanded 2.25 % every time a competitor tried to build a compatible device , the industry would grind to a halt .

如果每当有竞争对手试图开发一款兼容设备时，这些公司都要求对方支付2.25%的版税，那整个电信行业势必将陷入瘫痪状态。

Greece is expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike .

希腊数十万国企和私营企业职工举行大罢工，希腊将有可能第二次在一个月之内逐渐瘫痪。

WITHOUT them many an economy would grind to a halt : the global army of between 50m and 100m domestic workers , most of them women and children .

全球约有五千万到一亿的家政服务大军，如果没有他们，许多经济都会慢慢停下来。他们中的大多数人是妇女和儿童。

Blues boss Mourinho felt the hit-man fully deserved a new deal and now expects the transfer rumours to grind to a halt .

蓝军主教练穆利尼奥认为这名锋线杀手完全应该得到新合同，并且期望转会的谣传可以被粉碎。

Many developing nations are also in the midst of an economic slowdown , as Chinese demand for raw materials wanes and domestic credit booms grind to a halt .

许多发展中国家也已出现经济放缓，这是因为中国对原材料的需求大幅降低，国内信贷繁荣慢慢走到终点。

Mervyn King , the Bank of England governor , said the British economy required a " painful " adjustment to higher energy and food prices , predicting the economy would grind to a halt for a year before recovering .

英国央行行长默文金（mervynking）表示，英国经济需要经历一次“痛苦的”调整，以适应更高的能源和食品价格，他预测英国经济将陷于停顿，一年之后才会复苏。

The story is the same in almost every developed country : the bursting of the real estate bubble has caused property values to plummet , credit markets to seize up , and deal-flow to grind to a halt .

几乎每个发达国家的情形都一样：房地产泡沫破裂，导致房产价值暴跌、信贷市场失灵以及交易日趋枯竭。

Their proposal , published in the journal Physical Review D , claimed dark energy does not exist and that time was winding down to the point when it would finally grind to a halt long after the planet ceased to exist .

他们的理论发表在《物理评论（基本粒子、场论、宇宙学）》上，文章说宇宙中不存在暗能量。当地球消失后，时间也会一点点变慢，最终完全停止。

The group , which represents the major banks , said credit cards had become " demonized " as one of the main causes of ballooning debts , but added : " Without plastic , our society would virtually grind to a halt . "

这个代表着各主要银行的协会说，信用卡已经成了“魔鬼”，是造成债务激增的主要原因之一，但他们也补充道：“没有信用卡，我们的社会将会停滞不前。”

Otherwise , apart from what the -- the work of the police and the other security agencies , it has to be business as usual in the same way as other terror threats , we can 't allow our cities just to grind to a halt .

除了警察和其他安全机构的工作之外，其他工作也必须像应对恐怖主义威胁一样继续进行，我们不能让我们的城市陷入停顿。

After 2020 demand growth was expected to grind almost to a halt , increasing just 5 per cent over the following 20 years , the IEA said .

国际能源署表示，2020年后，需求增长预计会几近停顿，在之后的20年里将仅增长5%。