a halt

基本解释

Fail-stop: A halting failure with some kind of notification to other components.
停止運行故障：與停機故障不同的是，這種故障發生的時候會通知其他組件。
In short, the best-case scenario for housing still seems to be a halting recovery.
簡而言之，美國住房市場最可能的情況看來仍是磕磕絆絆的複囌。翩。
But just as China returns idiosyncratically to its own form of capitalism, so too the Bund is undergoing a halting facelift to revive it as a symbol of the city in the 21st century.
但正如中國以特有的方式推行其獨樹一幟的資本主義，外灘也正在以蹣跚的步履經受整容，使其在21世紀煥發新貌，繼續作爲上海的標志。

The exact cause is unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed signs of halting the disorder in laboratory mice.
A new drug is showing signs of halting the disorder and even un-doing its damaging effects.

All this is orchestrated by the director, Sam Raimi, with a halting, scattershot approach that verges on panic.
NEWYORKER: Spider-Man 3
When reform came, it was a halting process, and largely the result of the new economic and social realities of the expanding republic.
ECONOMIST: American democracy