The car gave a sudden jerk and came to a dead stop.

汽车猛然一颠，猝然停下。

《牛津词典》

Or if you wish to disregard my challenge, at the very least stop saying chivalry is dead, because you've refused to truly find out.

如果你并不关心我的倡议，至少，别再说骑士精神已经消亡，因为你拒绝真正去寻找。

youdao

In three separate field trials - the most recent in Sudan last year - Hassanali's team showed that even minute doses of PAN could stop hopper bands dead in their tracks and make them break ranks.

在分别进行的三个实地试验中—最近一次是去年在苏丹开展的—哈桑·纳尼的小组所展示的结果表明，即便是微量的PAN便可完全阻止蝗蝻带的行进，使其溃不成军。

youdao

Why not take this literally--or pretend to--and stop group tastings dead to grill the winery owner on the mineral composition of the vineyards represented in every wine?

FORBES: Faking It

The High Court has dismissed a bid to stop family lawyers of a man shot dead by officers in north-west London seeing covert surveillance footage.

BBC: Azelle Rodney lawyers 'can see' police surveillance film

And in 1989, a block from the arcade where Johnson was slain, Clement Anthony Lloyd was shot dead on his motorcycle by a Colombian-born police officer after a routine traffic stop.

CNN: Trayvon's killing and Florida's tragic past