stop dead

英 [stɒp ded]

美 [stɑːp ded]

（使）突然停止（发生或移动）

英英释义

verb

• stop moving or become immobilized
  1. When he saw the police car he froze
  Synonym:freeze

双语例句

• A small band of dedicated people are doing their best to stop Cornish from becoming a dead language.
  少数有献身精神的人正在尽最大的努力使凯尔特语免于绝传。
• She will not stop until we are all dead.
  除非我们都死掉，否则她是不会停止杀戮的。
• To stop dead in your tracks.
  行驶中突然急刹车。
• With completion scheduled by mid-2009, the twin four-lane highways have already reached worli-where they stop dead over open water, about 100m from the shoreline.
  双向四车道的高速公路已经修到了沃里，按计划将于2009年中完工现在它在离海岸约100米远的开阔水面上戛然而止。
• It soon becomes apparent that the amount of choices we're offered from our society can be too overwhelming, which causes us to stop dead in our tracks.
  但很快，社会加之给我们的大量选择就崩盘了，我们也随之消糜在摸索的道路上。
• The ambition is bold: to stop the emergence of artemisinin resistance dead in its tracks, at its source, and thus prevent, or at least significantly delay, further international spread.
  我们雄心勃勃：要从根源上立刻制止青蒿素耐药性的出现，并从而制止或至少显著延缓进一步的国际传播。
• A taxi driver, who did not want to be named, added that he was unwilling to stop in certain parts of the city that were badly damaged in the tsunami for fear of picking up a customer who is a spirit of the dead.
  一位不愿透露姓名的出租车司机补充说，他不愿意在城市的某些遭到海啸破坏严重的地区停车，害怕上车的乘客是死者的魂魄。
• First, if he does not really understand your current tasks but is trying to force-fit an old solution to them, stop him dead in his tracks and work through his discussion, point by point.
  首先，如果他没有真正理解你们当前的任务，但是想要把一个以前的解决方案硬套进来，在他结束以前就制止他，并针对他的讨论一点一点进行分析。
• Both face economies whose worse enemies are elected leaders unable to stop a financial collapse ( in the eurozone) or dead set on a fiscal policy course bound to kill the recovery ( in the US).
  在欧元区和美国，经济所面临的更大敌人都是民众所选出来的领导人：在欧元区，领导人无力阻止金融崩溃；在美国，领导人一意孤行地制定注定会扼杀经济复苏的财政政策。
• And when you are able to stop, you will not hit a tree or a rock or someone else, you won't end up crashing dead.
  只要你能停下来，你就不会撞上树、撞上石头、撞上人，你就不会被撞死。