I asked Sam which country decided to gradually stop using nuclear power.

我问萨姆哪个国家决定停止使用核能。

They said, " the nation's commerce will grind to a halt" .

他们说，" 国家的商业将停止。"

I had stopped reading gradually, the way one heals or dies. I tried to maintain my bookish persona.

我停止了阅读，这是一种疗伤或死亡的方式。我努力保持我书生气的一面。

They used coffee to wean men off alcohol – make them gradually stop using something they had become addicted to.

他们用咖啡来让男性戒酒——让他们停止使用自己已经上瘾的东西。

Friction gradually stops the swiftly spinning top.

3. 摩擦力使快速旋转的陀停止。

" tapering-off, " stopping gradually; ceasing little by little.

“tapering-off”停止；一点一点地停止。

Instead though, it goes up, slows, stops, then falls back down toward me.

而实际上，它却向上运动，减速，停止，然后回落到我这边。

Everybody was running around and having fun, but then sometime around 30 it was like the music turned off and everybody started sitting down.

大家四处游荡、乐在其中。但30岁左右音乐停止，大家开始抢座。

Sometime later, when my tears had slowed to intermittent hiccups, I picked the first envelope off the table and opened it.

— 过了一段时间， 当我的泪水停止， 变成的打嗝时，我拿起桌上的第一个信封打开了它。

OK, Neil, let's recap the rest of the vocabulary from this programme, starting with to phase something out, meaning to gradually stop using something.

好了，尼尔，让我们回顾一下本期节目中的其余词汇，首先是" 步淘汰" ，意思是停止使用某物。

So, in the 1980s, manufacturers gradually stopped using CFCs and replaced them with hydroflurocarbons or HFCs, which are similar to CFCs, but don't contain chlorine.

因此，在20世纪80年代，制造商停止使用氟氯化碳，取而代之的是氢氟碳化合物或氢氟碳烃，它们与氟氯化碳类似，但不含氯。

As the systems that govern the physical body grind  to a halt, all electrical activity terminates in the brain, and the contents of the mind are  permanently lost.

当控制身体的系统停止时，大脑中的所有电活动都会终止，大脑的内容也将永久丢失。

As we watch the wheels of industry grind to a halt, the machinery of progress become silent, we have the wildest of opportunities to hit the reset button.

当我们看着工业的车轮停止，进步的机器变得沉寂时， 我们有最疯狂的机会按下重启键。

The canals gradually fell out of use, though, as railways were developed, becoming the main way of moving goods and people from one end of the country to the other.

然而，随着铁路的发展，运河停止使用，铁路成为将货物和人员从国家的一端运送到另一端的主要方式。

Without this essential service, life on Earth would grind to a halt because dead stuff would pile up, depriving the next generation of life forms of the raw materials needed for growth.

如果没有这种基本服务，地球上的生命就会停止， 因为死亡的东西会堆积起来， 剥夺下一代生命形式生长所需的原材料。

The moans of the little patient subsided; its convulsive tossings gradually ceased; and in a few moments, as is the custom of young children after relief from pain, it sank into a profound and dewy slumber.

小病人的呻吟声平息了； 它的痉挛性翻腾停止了。片刻之后，就像小孩子在疼痛减轻后的习惯一样，它陷入了沉沉而湿润的睡眠中。

From that moment she began to judge him. Charles's sobs, though muffled, still sounded through the sepulchral house; and his deep groans, which seemed to come from the earth beneath, only ceased towards evening, after growing gradually feebler.

从那一刻起，她开始评判他。查尔斯的抽泣声虽然低沉，但仍然响彻墓室。他低沉的呻吟似乎是从地下传来的，直到傍晚才减弱，才停止了。

With less load on the original foundation, the sinking of the other two sides will gradually slow to a stop, straightening the building back to its original plumbness, but just a couple of feet lower than where it started.

由于原始地基上的负载较小，另外两侧的下沉将缓慢直至停止，使建筑物恢复到原来的垂直度，但仅比开始时低几英尺。