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Перевод: standstill
[существительное] остановка ; застой ; бездействие; затишье [существительное]
Тезаурус:
- ON COLD, damp spring days, the streets get so smoky in Centralia, Pennsylvania, that traffic is forced to a standstill until visibility improves.
- To reach 62mph from standstill needs 9.6secs instead of 12, while the maximum speed climbs from 112mph to 126mph.
- It was an important study in selective toxicity, because it required the discovery of substances which brought spermatozoa to a standstill without damaging the tissues of the vaginal wall.
- It was being made to feel redundant that brought her to a standstill.
- The first arose from the government's decision to impose a standstill grant for that year - in effect a reduction in the District's planned programme in the 1952-;53 session at a time when much patient work to gain support from trade union branches and members had succeeded particularly in Norwich and Northamptonshire.
- THE PLAYERS' strike which brought the National Hockey League to a standstill in the United States is over.
- City: Ronson seeking a debt standstill
- If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life, it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts, feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you, and interest herself in anything you have to say.
- Just after I had passed my driving test I drove up a local hill on the way to my aunt's house, coming to traffic at a standstill.
- "Being a wage-earner has nothing to do with it," Susan was beginning, when the train slowed down and slid to a standstill in Exeter Central station.
- He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres.
- HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson will this week meet the steering committee set up on Friday to represent Heron's 82 bankers to negotiate a standstill agreement on its 1.22 billion debt.
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