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1. For example, if the course of the speech, she will always envisaged committed grammatical mistakes, or the fear of speaking in their own stresses will suddenly grind to a halt, stresses not go, and this is a negative scenario, it is likely to deny you the confidence to speak.
    遇到这种情况，当消极思想可能完全毁去你的自信时，你就该为自己做一番精神讲话，用浅明、平直的言辞跟自己说，你的讲演是很适合你的，因为它来自你的经验，来自你对生命的看法，在你的听众中，你比任何人都更有资格来做这番特别的演说，并且你将全力以赴，把它说个清楚。

2. The accident happened between Bierton and Bedgrove, in Buckinghamshire, causing rush hour traffic to grind to a halt
    车祸发生在白金汉郡的Bierton 和 Bedgrove之间，并造成了高峰期的交通堵塞。

3. Of course, no manufacturer would assume such risk, and any industry that used bolts would grind to a halt.
    当然，没有一个制造商将承当这样的风险，任何使用螺栓的工业将慢慢的停下来。

4. We saw the automobile grind to a halt when the engine blew up.
    我们看见那辆车因为发动机出故障而慢慢地停下来了。

5. Greece is expected to grind to a halt for the second time in a month as hundreds of thousands of state and private workers stage a general strike.
    希腊数十万国企和私营企业职工举行大罢工，希腊将有可能第二次在一个月之内逐渐瘫痪。

6. The story is the same in almost every developed country: the bursting of the real estate bubble has caused property values to plummet, credit markets to seize up, and deal-flow to grind to a halt.
    几乎每个发达国家的情形都一样：房地产泡沫破裂，导致房产价值暴跌、信贷市场失灵以及交易日趋枯竭。

7. grind to a halt的解释

7. 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。

8. Their proposal, published in the journal Physical Review D, claimed dark energy does not exist and that time was winding down to the point when it would finally grind to a halt long after the planet ceased to exist.
    他们的理论发表在《物理评论（基本粒子、场论、宇宙学）》上，文章说宇宙中不存在暗能量。当地球消失后，时间也会一点点变慢，最终完全停止。

9. All it takes is a single loaded comment tossed into any SOA discussion (which then becomes a rhetorical hand grenade), and you can watch all useful conversation grind to a halt.
    只需要在任何SOA讨论中扔出一句火药味十足的话（随后将成为一个修辞“手榴弹”），然后就可以看着原本有用的讨论瞬时间陷入一片静寂。

10. Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
    这麽说的同时，放下手中的电话，然后走开。这消耗了电话销售员的时间，而且渐渐熄灭了他们的推销热情。

11. Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, said the British economy required a " painful " adjustment to higher energy and food prices, predicting the economy would grind to a halt for a year before recovering.
      英国央行行长默文金（mervynking）表示，英国经济需要经历一次“痛苦的”调整，以适应更高的能源和食品价格，他预测英国经济将陷于停顿，一年之后才会复苏。

12. Many developing nations are also in the midst of an economic slowdown, as Chinese demand for raw materials wanes and domestic credit booms grind to a halt.
      许多发展中国家也已出现经济放缓，这是因为中国对原材料的需求大幅降低，国内信贷繁荣慢慢走到终点。

13. But without them, industries worth trillions of dollars would grind to a halt.
      但如果没有稀土，价值数万亿美元的工业都得渐渐停产。

14. 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。