moratorium

noun

1. 暂停，中止（尤指经官方同意的）
   a temporary stopping of an activity, especially by official agreement
   1. The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.
      会议呼吁两年内暂停商业捕鲸活动。

1. N-COUNT (行动或活动的)暂停，中止
   A moratorium on a particular activity or process is the stopping of it for a fixed period of time, usually as a result of an official agreement.
   1. The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.
      众议院投票表决将核试验暂停一年。

1. The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.
   众议院投票表决将核试验暂停一年。
2. Obama would also suspend taxes on unemployment benefits and would place a90-day moratorium on home foreclosures.
   奥巴马也将暂停对失业福利征税，并对由于付不出分期贷款而导致房屋被拍卖的家庭实行为期90天的宽限。
3. "The broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production," he said.
   他说：“联邦政府的广泛禁令阻碍了能源的勘探和生产”。
4. Pending the treaty's entry into force, I urge all States to implement a moratorium on all nuclear explosions.
   在条约生效之前，我敦促所有国家暂停所有核爆炸。
5. ( Warner Bros. moratorium on Potter will not include digital Electronic Sell-Through and VOD or games).
   （华纳兄弟对于波特系列的中止发行并不包括视频点播或者游戏之类的数字及电子销售）。
6. That moratorium ended in October. But the government has given very few permits since then.
   这次暂停政策于去年10月结束，但自那时起，政府只批准了少量（深水钻井）许可。
7. He said organizers of the conference didn't realize that the moratorium is no longer in place.
   他说，大会的组织者没有意识到暂停授予许可的状态已经结束了。
8. Remember when he refused a request by Siemens to take a stake in Areva, the French nuclear group, simply because Germany had imposed a moratorium on nuclear power.
   别忘了，他曾拒绝西门子（siemens）收购法国核能集团阿海珐（areva）部分股权的请求，只因为当时德国暂停了核能开发。
9. It was the first approval from the mainland regulator since September, when Beijing imposed a moratorium on listings.
   这是自去年9月中国内地暂停新股上市以来，监管机构首次批准新股发行。
10. A deepwater drilling moratorium is in place and a thoroughgoing review of the regulatory regime is under way.
    白宫已宣布暂停深水钻井，并开始彻底审查监管体制。
11. Progressive students suggested to hold a one-week moratorium.
    进步学生建议暂停课一周。
12. Bush says he wants Congress to act first in ending its moratorium.
    布什总统说，他希望国会首先采取行动结束这一禁令。
13. It takes the Mazu belief and the midsummer moratorium system as examples to reveal their implicit sociological essence.
    并以海洋妈祖信仰和伏季休渔制度为例，剖析其后所隐含的社会学本质。
14. I consider it expedient to announce a moratorium on Russian fulfilment of this treaty until all countries of Nato, without exception, ratify this treaty, he said.
    我认为，俄罗斯宜宣布延期执行这项条约，除非北约所有成员国无一例外地都认可这项条约。
15. Mitchell has been trying to persuade the Palestinians to remain in talks with Israel, although Israel's moratorium on West Bank settlement construction expired Sunday.
    米切尔试图劝说巴勒斯坦人继续与以色列进行和平会谈，尽管以色列在约旦河西岸的定居点冻结令上星期日已经到期。
16. She said the moratorium would be lifted once the two countries had signed a new agreement on the treatment of migrant workers.
    她说一旦两国签署了关于农民工待遇的新协议，暂停条令将会被撤销。
17. Only nine licences were issued until a moratorium last year.
    在去年被叫停之前，政府仅签发了9张许可证。
18. 79. Earlier this year we imposed a nine-month moratorium on land sales up to March 1999.
    79.今年较早时，我们宣布暂停卖地九个月，至一九九九年三月为止。
19. The sanctions – including a travel ban, a broad trade ban and restrictions on investment and remittances – were lifted in 2000 after Pyongyang agreed to a missile test moratorium.
    曾经实施的制裁内容包括旅游禁令、广泛的贸易禁令以及对投资和汇款方面的限制等。2000年，在朝鲜政府同意暂停导弹试射之后，美国取消了对朝鲜的这些制裁。
20. Hadley called on North Korea to "respect its own moratorium" thursday and return to the six-party talks.
    周四哈德利呼吁朝鲜“尊重自己的核武器搁置计划”并重反（返）六方会谈。
21. A moratorium or reparations payments emerged soon after the bank began operations.
    在银行开始营业后不久，就发生了赔款支付的延期偿付。
22. Earlier this year, the WTO found the EU had operated a de facto moratorium on GMO products, breaking global trade rules.
    今年初，世贸组织发现，欧盟对转基因产品采取了事实上的禁令，从而违反了世界贸易规则。
23. But a moratorium could halt Russia's co-operation with the CFE's transparency and inspection regime, which has played an important role in confidence-building by demonstrating member states 'compliance with arms limits.
    然而，退出可能中断俄罗斯与CFE的透明及核查机构的合作，这种合作说明成员国遵守限制军备的规定，在建立互信方面发挥了重要的作用。
24. Can you believe it? Beijing has imposed a moratorium on new foreign films.
    你能相信吗？北京暂缓了所有海外电影的上映档期。
25. And so congressman, would you favor a moratorium on the federal death penalty?
    所以众议员，你倾向延期执行联邦死刑？
26. We recommended a moratorium on two particular kinds of experiments.
    我们建议暂禁两种特殊的实验。
27. Canada has already announced a unilateral moratorium.
    加拿大已单方面宣布了一个允许暂缓还债的计划。
28. I believe it's a Republican governor who's imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois.
    我相信一个共和党的州长在伊利诺斯州强行延期死刑的执行。
29. Try a moratorium on all criticism.
    尝试暂停一切形式的批评。

noun

1. suspension of an ongoing activity

2. a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged