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

• An Experimental Study on the Liquid Hold-up of Gas-Liquid Biphasic Tilted Descending Pipelines
  气液两相流倾斜下降管持液率实验研究
• A wave of train robberies followed the Reno brothers 'startling hold-up.
  雷诺兄弟抢劫火车得手之后，带动了一波火车劫案的风潮。
• Little's assertion is that the implementions hold-up is the most important impediment and that the development team would be wise to put some energy into seeing it removed.
  Little强调：无法实施是目前最重要的障碍，开发团队应该想办法投入一些精力来解决这个问题。
• Police tried to stop them, unaware that an attempted hold-up was taking place.
  警察试图让他们停下来，可一场早已预谋的袭击事件发生了。
• He may be delayed by some trifling hold-up in the department.
  他可能被局里的琐事耽搁了。
• The drift flux model was used to study gas hold-up in riser.
  用漂流通量模型描述了上流区的气含率；
• The main parameters of gas-liquid two-phase flow, such as flow patterns, pressure drop and liquid hold-up, are investigated in this paper.
  研究了不同流型下压力降与持液率的特点，以及压降脉动信号的方差与持液率、气、液相流量之间的关系。
• The hold-up is just the beginning of the end.
  但这些仅仅是一个开头。
• 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。
• A man was killed in a convenience store hold-up last night.
  昨晚在一家便利商店的抢劫案中，一位男子被杀害了。