hold-up

英 [ˈhəʊld ʌp]

美 [ˈhoʊld ʌp]

n.  停顿; 阻滞; 阻碍; 持枪抢劫

复数：hold-ups　

化学

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 停顿；阻滞；阻碍
  a situation in which sth is prevented from happening for a short time
  1. What's the hold-up?
     遇到什么障碍了？
  2. We should finish by tonight, barring hold-ups.
     倘若没有延误，我们应该在今晚完工。
  3. Sorry I'm late. There was a hold-up on the motorway.
     抱歉，我来晚了，公路上堵车了。
• 持枪抢劫
  an act of stealing from a bank, etc. using a gun

柯林斯词典

• 持械抢劫
  Ahold-upis a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables.
• 造成延搁的事物;阻碍;障碍
  Ahold-upis something which causes a delay.
• N-COUNT 交通阻塞
  Ahold-upis the stopping or very slow movement of traffic, sometimes caused by an accident which happened earlier.
  1. They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up.
     他们因高速公路交通堵塞迟到了。

双语例句

• They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up.
  他们因高速公路交通堵塞迟到了。
• A man was killed in a convenience store hold-up last night.
  昨晚在一家便利商店的抢劫案中，一位男子被杀害了。
• An Experimental Study on the Liquid Hold-up of Gas-Liquid Biphasic Tilted Descending Pipelines
  气液两相流倾斜下降管持液率实验研究
• Experimental Study and Similarity Analysis of the Axial Profile of Solid Hold-up in the Dense Region of a Coupled Fluidized Bed
  耦合流化床密相区固含率轴向分布及相似性分析
• Later he was identified as a notorious hold-up man.
  后来认出他是个劣迹昭彰的拦路抢劫犯。
• They hit the hold-up alarms, I gotta get out before the cops show.
  他们按动警钟，我得在警察来之前离去。
• There was a short hold-up while the choir moved on to the stage.
  合唱团登上舞台时耽搁了一小会儿。
• The hold-up is just the beginning of the end.
  但这些仅仅是一个开头。
• I nearly missed my flight owing to a traffic hold-up.
  因为交通阻塞，我差一点没有赶上航班。
• My flight arrived very late because there was a hold-up at the airport.
  我航班到达的时候非常晚，因为在机场晚点了。