dead end

Word family verbdeadennoundeadenerdeadeningdeaderdeadlinessdeadnessdeadbeatdead duckdead enddeadeyedead heatdeadhousedeadlightsdeadlinedeadlockdeadly nightshadedeadpandead ringerdeadstockdead woodadjectivedeadlydeadstrokedead

Related topics: Roads

ˌdead ˈend noun [countableC]

1. TTRa street with no way out at one end 死巷，死胡同

2 PROGRESS#a situation where no more progress is possible 僵局

come to/reach a dead end

The negotiations have reached a dead end.

谈判陷入了僵局。

3. dead-end job PROGRESS#a job with low wages and no chance of progress 低薪且没有前途的工作

Examples from the Corpus

dead end• He realized that the job at which he had been aiming all these years seemed to him to be a dead end.• Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.• Working at the warehouse seemed like a dead end.• It's a dead end isn't it.• This was a dead end for me.• He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.• It felt like some sort of dead end.

come to/reach a dead end• She'd come to a dead end.• A few hundred yards beyond them, the path came to a dead end.• But this too came to a dead end.• The trail came to a dead end.

词汇	dead end
释义	dead end Word family verbdeadennoundeadenerdeadeningdeaderdeadlinessdeadnessdeadbeatdead duckdead enddeadeyedead heatdeadhousedeadlightsdeadlinedeadlockdeadly nightshadedeadpandead ringerdeadstockdead woodadjectivedeadlydeadstrokedead Related topics: Roads ˌdead ˈend noun [countableC] 1. TTRa street with no way out at one end 死巷，死胡同 2 PROGRESS#a situation where no more progress is possible 僵局 come to/reach a dead end The negotiations have reached a dead end. 谈判陷入了僵局。 3. dead-end job PROGRESS#a job with low wages and no chance of progress 低薪且没有前途的工作 Examples from the Corpus dead end• He realized that the job at which he had been aiming all these years seemed to him to be a dead end.• Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.• Working at the warehouse seemed like a dead end.• It's a dead end isn't it.• This was a dead end for me.• He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.• It felt like some sort of dead end. come to/reach a dead end• She'd come to a dead end.• A few hundred yards beyond them, the path came to a dead end.• But this too came to a dead end.• The trail came to a dead end.
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