grind to a halt

The reactions grind to a halt over the next few days, as the falling Jenga towers run out of other towers they can actually hit.

在接下来的几天，反应渐渐停止，就像积木堆撞倒其他塔一样。

I was determined not to let the publics business grind to a halt and was gratified that the White House staff and cabinet felt the same way.

我决定不去打搅公众的注意力，并欣慰地看到白宫工作人员和内阁成员也这样想。

If all the migrants were to leave, Beijing would grind to a halt.

那是因为我们希想让他们留下来，我们需要他们留下来；如果农民工都走了，北京就会陷入停顿。

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。

The free flow of new ideas slows down and newer, better ways of doing things grind to a halt.

新想法的自由交流变得缓慢，那么更新的更好的做事方式就会停滞不前了。

At the beginning of the recent global financial crisis, many feared that the Chinese growth engine would grind to a halt.

在最近的全球金融危机开始之初，许多人担忧中国经济增长引擎会熄火。

Every thirty seconds, the server experiences a huge storm of disk-writing activity, causing the system to nearly grind to a halt.

每隔30秒，服务器就会遇到磁盘写活动高峰，导致系统几乎陷于停顿。

"Sometimes we feel the whole place is about to grind to a halt, " sighs a prominent businessman.

一位声名显赫的商人叹道，“有时候我们会觉得整个这个地方会突然停止运转。”

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。

Rather, the whole business world will face the storm of the century and commerce could literally grind to a halt.

相反，整个世界将面临世纪风暴，商业将基本停滞。

Having failed to overcome the 60-vote hurdle to end a Senate filibuster, Mr Obama watched his $450bn jobs bill grind to a halt last week.

上周，由于未能在参议院获得60票来结束杯葛议事的“冗长辩论”（filibuster）行径，奥巴马眼睁睁地看着自己的4500亿美元就业法案停止推进。

if we queried everything that struck us as less than perfectly straight, working life would grind to a halt.

如果我们对每件不那么光彩的事都提出质疑，职场生活就会陷入停滞。

Cities grind to a halt Power lines collapse and water supplies freeze. Cars won't start. Roads are cut off by ice.

城市陷于瘫痪。电线倒塌，供水系统结冰。汽车不能启动。道路被冰雪切断。

It will be a hard slog. But on the current evidence don't expect America's recovery to grind to a halt.

这或许将是一次十分艰难的前行，但现有数据也都显示，美国经济不会停止其复苏的脚步。

University departments will grind to a halt. High-tech companies will be starved of personnel.

大学会因为没有生源而停课，高科技公司也将因人才匮乏而倒闭。

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

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。

Martial law will not solve this problem, as society will grind to a halt.

军事戒严不能解决该问题，因为社会会限于停顿状态。

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。

Production could grind to a halt unless sales of fridges, cars and clothing pick up.

除非冰箱、汽车、衣物的销量上升，否则生产活动会艰难的停滞于此。

But if something similar happened today, the world's high-tech infrastructure could grind to a halt.

不过如果有些相似情况发生在今天，世界上的高科技基础设施可能逐渐停顿。