standstill
英 ['st?n(d)st?l]
美['st?ndst?l]
- n. 停顿；停止
考试真题
- The robots on line 3 have gone wrong, and lines are at a standstill.
2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B
- Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
- As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文