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词汇 dead-end
释义 dead end
noun
uk /ˌded ˈend/ us /ˌded ˈend/
[ C ]
a road that is closed at one end, and does not lead anywhere: 死路
a dead-end street一条死巷子
[ S ]
a situation that has no hope of making progress: 困境,绝境
Negotiators have reached a dead end in their attempts to find a peaceful solution.谈判者希望找到和平解决方案的种种努力已化为泡影。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Roads & routes in general
adopt
adopted
ascent
bicycle lane/path
bike lane
detour
exit
impassable
lane
milk round
multi-lane
one-way
roadworks
route
RR
shortcut
skid marks
switchback
toll road
tollway

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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
dead-end
verb[ I ]
USuk /ˌded ˈend/ us /ˌded ˈend/
If a road or path dead-ends, it is closed at one end, and does not lead anywhere:
The road dead-ended halfway up the mountain.
He had to turn his bike around at the end of the trail as it dead-ended at a parking lot.
A logging road dead-ended near the river.
The street we were on dead-ended at an astonishing looking building.
The investigator’s case dead-ended in Boston.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ends and endings
abrupt end
accomplishment
at the close of something
break
break something up
cessation
conclusion
death
ending
endpoint
era
expiration
expiry
finalization
swansong
tailpiece
terminable
terminative
the tail end
twilight

dead end | American Dictionary


dead end
noun[ C ]
us/ˈded ˈend/
a road or path that has no way out at one end:
fig. Negotiators have reached a dead end (= have not been successful and cannot go further) in their attempts to find a peaceful solution.

dead end | Business English


dead end
noun[ C ]
ukus
a situation that is unlikely to be successful or to make any progress:
We had several customer leads that all turned out to be dead ends.
It's very demoralizing for her; she perceives that her career is at a dead end.
reach/hit a dead endPlans to build a new toll road have reached a dead end.

Examples of dead end


dead end
It approaches from ahead: it is a hypothetical moment when there are no choices left: the brick wall in the dead-end alley.
For many writers of the 1960s and 1970s, agricultural commodity production was seen as an economic dead-end.
Interestingly, a small "dead-end" tract was also found to originate from the main bundle in this heart.
Some nodes are dead-end structures, for which no production rules are applicable.
The dead-end spaces are omitted since they cannot evidently be part of a hamiltonian path. 10.
In practice, failing to secure support from factions within his or her own party brings a dead-end to implementation.
They saw instead that racism was a dead-end street, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression.
If this is where we are led in the end, it strikes me as a dark dead-end alley.
This additional bundle might also represent such a dead-end tract.
At this dead-end point the closest obstacle is the top-right pyramid.
It is difficult to maintain adequate free chlorine residual in dead-end sections of water distribution systems.
The follow-boundary heuristic is invoked whenever the robot gets stuck in a dead-end position.
Heuristics are used whenever a dead-end point is encountered (described below).
In our incremental stack-splitting system, once an agent finds that there is no one to ask for work, it goes into a dead-end loop just waiting for the halt signal.
These and probably further questions need to be adequately addressed by field research before an informed decision can be made on the adoption of this dead-end trapping approach.
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