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0【句子】What's the hold-up with you? 【Desperate Housewives S2E8】
【发音】/ˈwɒts/ /ˈwɑːts/ /ðə/ /ˈhəʊld.ʌp/ /wɪð/ /ju:/
【发音技巧】hold-up连读；with you连读；
【翻译】你们怎么停下来了？
【适用场合】
在英文中，有一个动词短语，叫做hold up，可以理解成：
to delay someone or something；to cause a delay;
拖延某个人/某个事情；造成拖延；
eg: Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident.
那次事故使交通堵塞了好几个小时。
eg: The train was held up by bad weather.
火车因恶劣天气而晚点。
eg: What's holding you up? We need to leave soon.
什么事耽搁了你？我们得马上就走。
这个动词短语，可以加上连字符变成名词：hold-up，意思其实就是a delay，“拖延”的意思；
eg: Come on, let's go. What's the hold-up?
快点儿，咱们走吧？磨蹭什么呀？
eg: We should finish by tonight, barring hold-ups.
倘若没有延误，我们应该在今晚完工。
eg: Sorry I'm late. There was a hold-up on the motorway.
对不起，我来晚了。高速公路上发生了交通堵塞。
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Don't hold up the line - have your ticket ready.
