Stall

(noun.) a tactic used to mislead or delay.

(noun.) a booth where articles are displayed for sale.

(noun.) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.

(noun.) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.

(noun.) a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; 'the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it'.

(verb.) deliberately delay an event or action; 'she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling'.

(verb.) come to a stop; 'The car stalled in the driveway'.

(verb.) cause an engine to stop; 'The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car'.

(verb.) cause an airplane to go into a stall.

(verb.) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.

(verb.) put into, or keep in, a stall; 'Stall the horse'.

布丽奇特编辑

• He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• An six hundred crowns, said Isaac, the good Prior might well pay to your honoured valours, and never sit less soft in his stall. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The book-stall keeper got into the coach; and away they drove. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Do you see that old cove at the book-stall? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This done, and just as I was bidding him farewell, I happened to glance towards the book-and-newspaper stall. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He would not deny himself one enjoyment; not his opera-stall, not his horse, not his dinner, not even the pleasure of giving Lazarus the five pounds. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I could spend all day every day at the stalls of the book fair as I once did in the days before the movement, if I ever could have any time in Madrid. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Look at that infernal sly-boots of a Tapeworm, Fipps whispered, examining his chief from the stalls. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We were in the stalls, and for a few minutes there was a most terribleruthless pressure about us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He occupied an excellent place, some twelve or fourteen seats from the end of a bench, within three rows of the stalls. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Emmy and the Major blushed: we saw them from the stalls. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I'm stalled o' t' curates, and so is t' wife. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The column did not move, although, on the other side beyond the stalled vehicles I could see the troops moving. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The column stalled again in the night and did not start. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Well has Solomon said--Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• When they were finally and completely stalled, the wheels dug in to the hubs, we left them in the field and started on foot for Udine. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A dinner of herbs is better than a stalled ox very often. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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