come to a halt 的定义
- Also, come to a standstill. Stop, either permanently or temporarily. For example, The sergeant ordered the men to come to a halt, or With the strike, construction came to a standstill. Both terms employ come to in the sense of “arrive at” or “reach,” a usage dating from the 10th century. Also see come to, def. 2.
come to a halt 近义词
等同于 pull up
等同于 end up
更多come to a halt例句
- Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
- These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
- But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.
- In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
- He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
- Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.