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

• The hold-up is just the beginning of the end.
  但这些仅仅是一个开头。
• He may be delayed by some trifling hold-up in the department.
  他可能被局里的琐事耽搁了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。