1.if a vehicle grinds to a halt, it moves more and more slowly until it finally stops
2.if a process or a country grinds to a halt, things gradually get slower until they finally stop
1.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。
2.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。
3.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。
4.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。
5.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。
6.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。
7.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。
8."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。”
9.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。
10.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。