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

• The implementation of "Light Engineering" can stop criminals by brightening streets and alleys and installing lights at dead zones.
  实施“灯光工程”，特别是在死角区域加装照明灯，让街巷胡同亮起来，就会使犯罪分子不宜下手。
• A hooker will stop screwing you after you're dead.
  妓女在你死后就不会缠你了。
• 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。
• The sight made him stop dead in his tracks.
  一看这情景，他惊呆了。
• 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。
• So once in a while his horse would stop dead in its tracks, because you know animals can sense things people can't.
  有一次，马突然停下来，因为我们都知道动物能感觉的我们人感觉不到的东西。
• The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead.
  其他青蛙不竭地劝他们别再白吃力气了，说他们死定了。
• 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。
• They won't stop until the dead is rested in the coffin.
  他们直至死者入殓才停止。