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

• 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。
• The drift flux model was used to study gas hold-up in riser.
  用漂流通量模型描述了上流区的气含率；
• I once facilitated a retrospective in which the developers had identified the UI experts as the biggest hold-up to their stories.
  在我主持的一次回顾中，开发人员识别出，UI专家是阻碍他们完成故事的最大障碍。
• The main parameters of gas-liquid two-phase flow, such as flow patterns, pressure drop and liquid hold-up, are investigated in this paper.
  研究了不同流型下压力降与持液率的特点，以及压降脉动信号的方差与持液率、气、液相流量之间的关系。
• The major hold-up, said Stern, is the large costs involved.
  斯特恩表示，巨额成本是载人航天的主要障碍。
• The hold-up was a government connection?
  那次枪劫跟政府有关？
• Axial Mixing and Gas Hold-Up of Gas-Liquid in Multistage Agitated Column The chromosphere is a frothy layer churned up by gases in the photosphere.
  多级搅拌塔气液体系的轴向混合和气含率色球层在光球层气体的搅拌下是个多泡层。
• During the course of co-operational RD, the specific asset invested by enterprises may be seized by copartners, then the hold-up problem arises.
  但在合作研发过程中，企业投入的专用性资产容易受到合作者的机会主义行为的侵害，产生敲竹杠问题。
• 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。
• A wave of train robberies followed the Reno brothers 'startling hold-up.
  雷诺兄弟抢劫火车得手之后，带动了一波火车劫案的风潮。