dead-end

基本解釋

Thus the tasty new banana was spared from an otherwise unavoidable evolutionary dead-end.
這樣一來，美味的香蕉就這樣定型了，沒有陷入難以避免的進(jìn)化死胡同。
He is faced with dead-end discoveries, therapeutic disasters and revelations that lead only to more mysteries.
他面臨著走入死胡同的探索，面臨著徹底失敗的治療方法，面臨只會(huì)帶來更多謎團(tuán)的啟示。
While some people may get lucky and just happen to wind up on the road to success, others do not, and their lack of planning leads to a dead-end job.
雖然有些人也許會(huì)幸運(yùn)地踏上成功的道路；而另一些人卻沒有，他們的缺乏規(guī)劃導(dǎo)致工作走進(jìn)了死胡同。
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So says to this person, "Isn't it strange you have this dead-end job when you're twice as smart as your boss?
狗跟這個(gè)人說，”你不覺得很奇怪嗎，你做這份沒出頭之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？
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However, what happens more often than not, is you run into a dead-end of the maze.
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When a shopping mall opens, most of them fall gratefully into dead-end jobs, serving smoothies and sandwiches.
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On a quiet, brief day well into autumn, crossties were being loaded onto flatcars at a dead-end siding.
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If a street is a dead end, there is no way out at one end of it.
A dead-end job or course of action is one that you think is bad because it does not lead to further developments or progress.