停住

E.g. The car stopped within a fraction of an inch of the wall.

汽车在离墙不到一英寸的地方停住了。

I was about to pull the tin heart out of Charlie's pocket when I stopped myself.

就在我要把小锡心从查理的口袋里拿出来的时候，我停住了。

If either your sails or your rudder be broken ,you can but toss and drift,or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

假如你的帆或舵破坏了，你们只能泛荡，漂流，或在海中停住。

If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

假如你们的帆或舵破坏了，你们只能泛荡、飘流，或在海中停住。

I want to tell this secret at first, but i stop before words out.

我本想告诉他这一秘密，但是话到嘴边却又停住了。

But he seems to remember something and stop to fall down suddenly.

可他好像想起了什么，突然停住了又落下来。

Because, you know, when you get scared that way, and it keeps running on, and getting worse and worse all the time, and your wits gets to addling, and you get to doing all sorts o' wild things, and by and by you think to yourself, spos'n I was a boy, and was away up there, and the door ain't locked, and you -- She stopped, looking kind of wondering, and then she turned her head around slow, and when her eye lit on me -- I got up and took a walk.

因为，你知道，人要吓成这个样子，而且吓得越来越厉害，越来越糟，你的脑袋给吓懵了，你就什么样的荒唐事都做得出来。到了后来，你会自个儿寻思，假如我是个男孩，独自在那里，门又没有上锁，那你——她说到这里停住了，神情显得有点儿惶惑，慢慢地转过头来，当眼光落到我身上时——我站了起来，出去遛达一会儿。

As they walked across the lawn towards the river, Elizabeth turned back to look again; her uncle and aunt stopped also, and while the former was conjecturing as to the date of the building, the owner of it himself suddenly came forward from the road, which led behind it to the stables.

他们穿过草地，走向河边，伊丽莎白这时候又掉过头来看了一直，舅父母也都停住了脚步，哪知道她舅舅正想估量一下这房子的建筑年代，忽然看到屋主人从一条通往马厩的大路上走了过来。

A passenger train is creeping along, slowly. Finally it creaks to a halt.

一辆客运火车正在缓慢地前进，最后吱吱呀呀地停住了。

"Sorry my hand played out," Martin said, when at last he desisted.

&抱歉，我的手没有劲了，&马丁终于停住，说，&打麻木了。&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。