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

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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

• 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。
• Little's assertion is that the implementions hold-up is the most important impediment and that the development team would be wise to put some energy into seeing it removed.
  Little强调：无法实施是目前最重要的障碍，开发团队应该想办法投入一些精力来解决这个问题。
• He may be delayed by some trifling hold-up in the department.
  他可能被局里的琐事耽搁了。
• The hold-up was a government connection?
  那次枪劫跟政府有关？
• The hold-up is just the beginning of the end.
  但这些仅仅是一个开头。
• A robber in New York came up with a disarming way to pull off his latest bank heist, approaching the teller's window with a large bouquet of flowers and handing over a hold-up note.
  为成功抢银行，纽约一名劫匪想出了一种非常忽悠人的办法。他举着一大捧花走向银行柜台，并递出一张纸条，上面写着“交出钱来”。
• 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。
• 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。
• Analysis on the Hold-up Mechanism in Inter-firm Network and Its Counter Measures
  企业间网络中敲竹杠行为机理及对策研究
• There was a hold-up at the bank over on2nd street.
  在第二大街的银行里发生了一起抢劫案。