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deadlock

/ded-lok/US // ˈdɛdˌlɒk //UK // (ˈdɛdˌlɒk) //

僵局,死锁,困局,僵持

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a state in which progress is impossible, as in a dispute, produced by the counteraction of opposing forces; standstill; stalemate: The union and management reached a deadlock over fringe benefits.
    • : deadbolt.
    • : a maximum-security cell for the solitary confinement of a prisoner.
  1. 1
    • : to bring or come to a deadlock.

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Examples

  • One option to resolve this deadlock is for the international community, and the United States and Europe in particular, to impose an end to the occupation and facilitate the two-state settlement they claim to endorse.

  • The bill, which also banned police from using rubber bullets and tear gas, was passed on December 1 by both the state’s House and Senate after senior lawmakers overcame months of deadlock to reach a consensus.

  • Tricoire laid out Schneider’s challenge—how to increase global access to energy while resolving “the deadlock” of climate change.

  • Until the federal deadlock ends, Land O’ Lakes and HP are working on their own, smaller-scale solutions to the digital divide.

  • After weeks of deadlock, the two parties are finally moving closer to a stimulus deal.

  • Created in an election year and evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, it could have ended in partisan deadlock.

  • It was illegal and forced of course, but it seemed to be the only way out from the bloody political deadlock.

  • John Avlon talks to a former FBI hostage negotiator about how to break the deadlock.

  • Billionaire investor expresses impatient with deadlock, but says investors expect limited irrationality from D.C.

  • The problem is it may take years—even decades—until they reach a deadlock too painful to endure.

  • He wanted to get back at the old hound somehow—without giving in an inch in the mute deadlock.

  • And into the midst of this racket burst the news that the negotiations with Germany, Russia and France were at a deadlock.

  • A capitalist deadlock of markets brought on in 1914 the capitalist collapse popularly known as the World War.

  • There had been,—so they had said,—peculiarities so peculiar that it might be that the much-dreaded deadlock had come at last.

  • I got nowhere, until, in a manner as sudden as it was unexpected, something happened which ended the deadlock.