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point of no return

不归点,不归路,终点,死胡同

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Aviation. the point in a flight at which an aircraft will lack sufficient fuel to return to its starting point.
    • : the critical point in an undertaking, decision-making process, etc., where one has committed oneself irrevocably to a course of action or policy.

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Examples

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • All things that are of the earth, shall return to the earth again, and all waters shall return to the sea.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.