dead end
死胡同,死路一条,死巷,死胡同里
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- : something, as a street or water pipe, that has no exit.
- : a position that offers no hope of progress; blind alley; cul-de-sac: His theory led him to a dead end.
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While AI algorithms can be optimized for current computers, they’re likely to hit a dead end when it comes to efficiency.
Break the grammar with too many mutations, or mutations in critical spots, and the virus will no longer be able to enter a cell and replicate, and will reach an evolutionary dead end.
You’d have to subpoena bank records and lawyers, as well as human sources, and even then you frequently hit a dead end.
The bulk of these mistakes are meaningless—false starts and dead ends—that have no impact on humans.
By taking her smell loss seriously, getting a rapid test and self-isolating, she created a dead end for the virus, breaking the transmission chain before the virus could spread to anyone else.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.