hold up 的定义
- a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- a stop or delay in the progress of something: There was a holdup in the construction of the bridge.
- an instance of being charged excessively.
hold up 近义词
postpone
rob
更多hold up例句
- It’s possible that supply chain holdups are forcing factories and construction sites to slow down or even shut down for awhile.
- The holdup is more likely to be the manufacturing and distribution of the retooled vaccines, Offit said.
- As Edward notes, there were holdups for Pfizer and Moderna on the manufacturing side, but they were not insurmountable — more like the kind of problems you face when you try to do something groundbreaking on a massive scale.
- It’s increasingly looking as though Senate Republicans are the holdup to a coronavirus stimulus bill before the election.
- Barring any holdups, Brazilian authorities said on Monday that they will aim to approve CoronaVac before the end of 2020 and begin distributing the vaccine to the public by the start of next year.
- In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.
- As they fled the scene of their holdup, the terrified taxi driver took them to Place de la Nation in the eastern part of Paris.
- Jacobs sites sample production delays as the culprit for his unforeseen holdup.
- Vrondran says that the holdup apparently surrounds BP's approval of the $200 per day pay for the deckhands.
- Next morning at daylight they found the body of Checkers lying beside the fatal red car not far from the scene of the holdup.
- According to her the police stood in with Bulldog Carney on a train holdup, and made this poor innocent lamb the goat.
- "If I land there you can ask for a damfool—and I'll answer the first time," laughed the holdup over his shoulder.
- A car of the same make, model and color was stolen from Annapolis, Maryland, a short time prior to the holdup.
- That's Jake Betts, holdup and bad man, that's been callin' himself Dade around here.