| 释义 |
call a haltDemand or order a stop: he decided to call a halt to all further discussion...- He claimed that the probability is that in the course of a telephone conversation on the morning of 10 November Hitler instructed Goebbels to draw up an order calling a halt to the violence.
- After three hours of walking through the night, Bailey had called a halt and ordered a twenty minute rest.
- An order by its board of directors called a halt to operations at all production units, sections, services and departments.
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