每日一词 198 stall

meaning: to stop making progress or developing

stall: 是动词，它常见的意思是汽车熄火、抛锚，也常引申为暂缓、搁置、停顿，表示这个意思是常用作不及物动词。stall 可以在一些场景下替换stop, 我们通过几个例子掌握它的用法。

我们想表示停滞不前的时候，可以用 stall, 比如当职业停滞不前时，就可以说 career has stalled.

While his career has stalled, hers has taken off.

小米一直想进军高端智能手机市场，不过一直没有什么进展。

Xiaomi's rise to top of smartphone market has stalled.

有些方案早早规划好了，但是迟迟没有进展。

Although the plan had been mapped out long ago, the progress stalled. 

《经济学人》用例：

1） If you are good at your job, you rise up the career ladder. Eventually, there will be a job you are not good at and at that point your career stall.

2) The growth of carbon-oxide emissions around the world will stall in 2015.

翻译：

1）由于会谈停止不前，双方都陷入了窘境。

As talks stall, both sides are in a dilemma. 

2) 造句：项目开始时，他热情很高，但因为精力不济，项目的就停止不前了。

Lack of energy causes the manager to stall on the project although he started it off strong.