dead end
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌdead ˈend noun [countable] 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.ˌdead ˈend nounChineseSyllable
end with way no a street Corpus one at out
dead end
ˌdead ˈend
noun [countable]
1. a street with no way out at one end
2. a situation where no more progress is possible
come to/reach a dead end
The negotiations have reached a dead end.
3. dead-end job a job with low wages and no chance of progress
ˌdead ˈend
noun [countable]1. a street with no way out at one end
2. a situation where no more progress is possible
come to/reach a dead end
3. dead-end job a job with low wages and no chance of progress