| 例句 |
impassenoun a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give inin their bitter custody battle, the divorcing couple are at a total impasse deadlock, gridlock, halt, logjam, Mexican standoff, stalemate, standoff, standstill dead endbind, bottleneck, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, jam, morass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, spotdifficultyproblem a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe impossible impasse faced by those who opposed the war but did not want to seem disloyal to the troops bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish in 1851 |