A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the gas tank.

如果你往油箱里加水，汽车会突然停下。

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So is the fear that, as export growth slows, the country's economy will come to a grinding halt.

与此相应的是，认为出口增速减缓将使中国经济陷入停滞的观点也是不成立的。

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So the object goes down, the velocity changes and when it is at position minus one it has come to a grinding halt and now it is returning.

因此物体向下运动时，速度是变化的,当它到达位置-1时,会猛的停下,然后返回。

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But,she warns this progress is fragile. She says the momentum for health development could come to a grinding halt because of problems stemming from the food and financial crises, the changing climate and the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

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The 2002 professional baseball season could come to a grinding halt Friday morning on account of greed.

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Scaling was destined to end, and once it did, the economic force behind the world of semiconductors would come to a grinding halt.

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