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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, I thought that this halt would mark the termination of our walk; but I was mistaken, for, instead of returning to the Nautilus, Captain Nemo continued his bold excursion.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At ten o'clock a halt of a few minutes was made.
-- Here a halt was made for breakfast under the shade of some splendid trees.
-- Gideon Spilett proposed to his companions that they should make a halt here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- cried Mrs Jarley, coming to a halt as Nell turned towards her.
-- As it came to a halt directly opposite to where he stood, the dwarf pulled off his hat, and saluted the party with a hideous and grotesque politeness.
-- For a long, long time, it was his chief delight to travel in the steps of the old man and the child (so far as he could trace them from her last narrative), to halt where they had halted, sympathise where they had suffered, and rejoice where they had been made glad.
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：
-- The halt continued until evening rendered objects in-distinct and uncertain to the eye.
-- Here a halt was ordered, and the chiefs were assembled to hold a 'whis-pering council.'
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