Business grinds to a halt worldwide as wild fires are ignited by the smoldering lines.

当野火被小小的闪光点燃时，全世界范围的商业活动都被迫停止。

If that happens, the economy would really grind to a halt.

如果这种情况发生，那希腊经济就会陷入停顿状态。

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

他们说，" 国家的商业将逐渐停止。"

And if everyone does that it, means that the economy sort of grinds to a halt. So deflation really worries economists.

如果所有人都这么做，那经济发展就会停止。所以通货紧缩让经济学家们非常困扰。

A failure at some point in the system meant the whole thing might grind to a halt.

系统中的某个故障意味着整个系统会缓慢停止。

Trains are set to grind to a halt in France on Thursday, classrooms will be shut and businesses disrupted.

周四，法国的列车将逐渐停运，学校停课，企业罢工。

Within hours, most of the planet's traffic grinds to a halt.

几个小时之内，地球上的大部分交通都陷入停顿。

Basically, our way of life could grind to a halt.

基本上， 我们的生活方式可能会陷入停顿。

Mix them with other things that slow down your body and everything could grind to a halt.

将它们与其他会减慢您身体速度的东西混合在一起，一切都会停止。

More civilians than combatants die, institutions that hold societies together fall apart, and economies grind to a halt.

死亡的平民多于战斗人员，维系社会的机构分崩离析，经济陷入停滞。

Germany's public transport network is expected to grind to a halt on Monday as two of the country's largest trade unions stage a 24-hour strike.

德国最大的两个工会组织将于周一举行 24 小时罢工，预计德国公共交通网络将陷入瘫痪。

Elsewhere steelmakers and other metal-bashers, Germany's second-biggest industrial users of gas after chemicals firms, would grind to a halt.

在其他地方， 钢铁制造商和其他金属制造商— — 德国仅次于化工公司的第二大天然气工业用户—— 将逐渐停滞。

And if a deal doesn't get done in time, everything except essential government operations will grind to a halt.

如果协议不能及时达成，除了基本的政府运作之外的一切都将陷入停顿。

If factories can't get parts, if factories can't get raw materials, then assembly lines grind to a halt and they can't ship what they've already made either.

如果工厂得不到零部件和原材料，那么装配线就会陷入停滞，工厂也无法运送已经生产出的产品。

WITHOUT them many an economy would grind to a halt: the global army of between 50m and 100m domestic workers, most of them women and children.

全球约有五千万到一亿的家政服务大军，如果没有他们，许多经济都会慢慢停下来。他们中的大多数人是妇女和儿童。

This suggests investors think either that the banks will have to issue more equity or that France will grind to a halt and they will not make their forecast returns.

这表明投资者认为要么法国的银行将会不得不出售更多股份，要么因法国经济陷入困境，而无法获得预期收益。

Nations that take such steps will lose balance. Social and economic progress will grind to a halt and the negative side of this transformation will eliminate more and more jobs.

采取这类措施的国家会失去平衡。社会和经济上的进步会慢慢停滞下来，而且越来越多的工作岗位会因为这种改革的负面作用而消失。

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逐渐停止，进步的机器变得沉寂时， 我们有最疯狂的机会按下重启键。

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，地球上的生命就会逐渐停止， 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。

Unfortunately, installing the piping is an expensive investment in infrastructure, but it is an effective method of minimising the risk of accidents and ensuring that the country doesn't grind to a halt.

不幸的是，安装管道是一项昂贵的基础设施投资，但它是将事故风险降至最低并确保国家不会陷入停顿的有效方法。