我们都突然停下来看着它。

We all stopped dead and looked at it.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我前面那辆车突然停下来，我也只好刹车。

The car in front of me stopped suddenly and I had to brake.

《牛津词典》

一只具有攻击性的熊通常会冲上前去吓跑它的敌人，但在最后一分钟会突然停下来。

An aggressive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute.

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I think it's wonderful because it "pulls up" just like Gadamer being "pulled up short," and there is, it seems to me, there's another crisis of expectation in this line in that especially as a toddler I need to negotiate that expression idiomatically.

我认为这非常好，因为“停下来“就像葛达玛的,“突然停下“一样，而依我看来，这里有另一个,期望危机，在这句话中，因为，特别是作为一个小孩,我需要用习惯性的表达法。

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