halt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. (途中) 暂停, 终止; vi. 犹豫, 踌躇，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The custom of the muleteers is to start immediately after breakfast, about eight o'clock, and not to stop till they camp for the night, about 4 P. M. Glenarvan fell in with the practice, and the first halt was just as they arrived at Arauco, situated at the very extremity of the bay.
-- They were all somewhat fatigued with the journey, and glad enough to halt for the night on the banks of the Neuquem, called Ramid, or Comoe by certain geographers, a troubled, turbulent rapid flowing between high red banks.
-- In the evening, after a march of only ten miles, the signal to halt was given, and the tent pitched.
-- According to the map which Paganel constantly referred to, the confluence of the Waipa and Waikato ought to be reached about five miles further on, and there the night halt could be made.
-- Glenarvan could not prolong the halt for a moment.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- BOOK XV UT when their flight had taken them past the trench Band the set stakes, and many had fallen by the hands of the Danaans, the Trojans made a halt on reaching their chariots, routed and pale with fear.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Somebody's load has tipped off in the road Cheer for a halt and a row!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an explanation; but the general could not tell what meant a halt in the midst of this forest of dates and acacias.
-- The principal chain of the Vindhias was crossed by eight in the evening, and another halt was made on the northern slope, in a ruined bungalow.
-- They made a halt at seven o'clock, the young woman being still in a state of complete prostration.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, sceptics and halfpenny philosophers, why do you halt half-way!'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should like to look at the creature'; if it is a true Iro-quois I can tell him by his knavish look, and by his paint,' said the scout; stepping past the charger of Heyward, and entering the path behind the mare of the singing master, whose foal had taken advantage of the halt to exact the ma-ternal contribution.
-- In the meantime, the sisters gladly dismounted, and pre-pared to enjoy their halt in the coolness of the evening, and in a security which they believed nothing but the beasts of the forest could invade.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's not so bad," said the sergeant, reflecting; "even if I was forced to halt here nigh two hours, that'll do.
-- We could not go fast, because of their lameness; and they were so spent, that two or three times we had to halt while they rested.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the horses were allowed to take some rest and refreshment, then following a narrow strip of shore between high rocks and the sea, they took us without further halt to the Aoalkirkja of Brantar, and after another mile to Saurboer Annexia, a chapel of ease, situated on the southern bank of the Hvalfjord.
-- This halt for refreshment was also a halt for repose.
-- Hans had taken advantage of this brief halt to repair the raft.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly he came to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this there was a slight halt in the natural reply.
-- This was in the mere matter of the halt his career had received when he departed from Chicago.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- come, lame and halt and blind!(AMEN!)
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