| 词汇 | impasse |
| 释义 | impasse noun[ U ] uk /æmˈpæs/ us /ˈɪm.pæs/ a situation in which progress is impossible, especially because the people involved cannot agree: 绝境；僵局 reach an impasseThe dispute had reached an impasse, as neither side would compromise.由于双方都不肯让步，争端陷入僵局。 Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic half nelson hardness have a bumpy rideidiom pall purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom impasse | American Dictionaryimpasse noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˈɪm·pæs/ a point in a process at which further progress is blocked, esp. by disagreement: We have reached an impasse in the negotiations -- neither side will budge. impasse | Business Englishimpasse noun[ S ] uk /ˈæmpæs/ us /ˈɪmpæs/ a situation in which further development is impossible: be at/remain at an impasseWith negotiations at an impasse, analysts warn the uncertainty may harm supermarket stocks. to declare/reach an impasse to break/end/resolve an impasse Examples of impasseimpasse Their disagreements contributed to the impasse over budget policy in 1995 and the infamous partial federal government shutdown. If at this juncture a seeming impasse is reached, at least two different conclusions can be drawn. Accentuating authenticity and a concomitant cultural autochthony, their vividness breeds essentialization and theoretical impasse. The narrow view of culture, limited to race or ethnic group, provided no solution to the impasse over life support between her physicians and family. But, whereas the rationality axiom just leads to an impasse, the evolutionary approach suggests ways out. When the president's party likes the outcome of the legislative impasse, presidents willingly go down to defeat. Even as fine sentiments make bad literature, excellent evidence-based studies regularly hit practical impasses. Recent work in industrial policy and political theory takes seriously the historical impasse we now face. Ways to overcome such an impasse are examined, and eventually the solution is obtained. This leads to an impasse in which neither player can act rationally. Here contemporary science is pretty much at an impasse. At the point that seemed at first to be a moral impasse, the way for moral intellectual practice is in fact wide open. In certain ways, this paper is about personal and institutional patronage: the working out of a difficult theoretical impasse requires individual and collective moral support. The track leads, he might think, into a moral impasse in theory and into either anarchy or, worse, tyranny in practice. For students of multiculturalism, the move has offered a way out of an ideological impasse. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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