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

汽车猛然一颠，猝然停下。

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Dead ball: Occurs whenever the whistle blows to stop play and after a field goal, but before the opponent gains possession of the ball.

在一方打出球，而另一方没有接住球之前，被口哨停止。

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First, if he does not really understand your current tasks but is trying to force-fit an old solution to them, stop him dead in his tracks and work through his discussion, point by point.

首先，如果他没有真正理解你们当前的任务，但是想要把一个以前的解决方案硬套进来，在他结束以前就制止他，并针对他的讨论一点一点进行分析。

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And just in case the assumptions are not true, we're just going to stop dead in our tracks.

验证下假设条件，万一传递的参数。

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He then screeched to a dead stop in 1.4 seconds, sustaining a force equivalent to 46.2 times gravity.

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In about six and a half minutes the spacecraft had to go from more than 10, 000 miles an hour to a dead stop.

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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?

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