英语词汇“dead end”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dead end

/ˌdɛd ˈɛnd

noun

1An end of a road or passage from which no exit is possible: the path came to a dead end...

The road, having become steadily narrower, came to a dead-end right by the visitor's centre at the Gibraltar Point nature reserve.
The road came to a dead end, and I stopped inches from the trunk of a tree, tires on the edge of the curb.
We went back to our bikes and rode on down the road to investigate further, but came to a dead end at a factory.

1.1A road or passage from which no exit is possible: Not that way! It’s a dead end!...

I drove down the road to an empty dead-end street with brush and overgrowth all over the place, not a building in sight.
Holly went to drop her bags off at her house, which was all the way at the end of our dead-end street, and I went up to my room.
Most Thorndon side roads are dead ends, narrower than varicose veins and have a topography that even a goat would baulk at.

Synonyms

no through road, blind alley, cul-de-sac

1.2A situation offering no prospects of progress or development: their relationship had reached a dead end [as modifier]: a dead-end street...

This longing usually takes over when they feel constrained or trapped in a situation such as a dead-end job, an unhappy marriage, or have settled into a routine that hints of boredom.
Desperation is the key factor; each character wants to break out of their dead-end situation, but in the end they always opt to hold on.
Slacker Jeff (played with an enviable edge by Chris Fassbender) is slowly going mad in a dead-end job and can't be bothered to attend more than one class at a local community college.

Synonyms

impasse, deadlock, stalemate, checkmate, stand-off;

standstill, halt, stop, stoppage, full stop

verb [no object]

(dead-end) North American (Of a road or passage) come to a dead end: he kept walking, until the corridor dead-ended...

But of course there was a family errand, one whose reality greeted us the instant the country road dead-ended into the highway running south.
Thankfully, the misguided side road dead-ends here.
Since it was Veterans Day, there was also a parade down Congress Avenue, over the so-called Town River (the Colorado) and on to the Capitol, where the street dead-ended.

单词	dead end
释义	dead end /ˌdɛd ˈɛnd / noun 1An end of a road or passage from which no exit is possible: the path came to a dead end... The road, having become steadily narrower, came to a dead-end right by the visitor's centre at the Gibraltar Point nature reserve. The road came to a dead end, and I stopped inches from the trunk of a tree, tires on the edge of the curb. We went back to our bikes and rode on down the road to investigate further, but came to a dead end at a factory. 1.1A road or passage from which no exit is possible: Not that way! It’s a dead end!... I drove down the road to an empty dead-end street with brush and overgrowth all over the place, not a building in sight. Holly went to drop her bags off at her house, which was all the way at the end of our dead-end street, and I went up to my room. Most Thorndon side roads are dead ends, narrower than varicose veins and have a topography that even a goat would baulk at. Synonyms no through road, blind alley, cul-de-sac 1.2A situation offering no prospects of progress or development: their relationship had reached a dead end [as modifier]: a dead-end street... This longing usually takes over when they feel constrained or trapped in a situation such as a dead-end job, an unhappy marriage, or have settled into a routine that hints of boredom. Desperation is the key factor; each character wants to break out of their dead-end situation, but in the end they always opt to hold on. Slacker Jeff (played with an enviable edge by Chris Fassbender) is slowly going mad in a dead-end job and can't be bothered to attend more than one class at a local community college. Synonyms impasse, deadlock, stalemate, checkmate, stand-off; standstill, halt, stop, stoppage, full stop verb [no object] (dead-end) North American (Of a road or passage) come to a dead end: he kept walking, until the corridor dead-ended... But of course there was a family errand, one whose reality greeted us the instant the country road dead-ended into the highway running south. Thankfully, the misguided side road dead-ends here. Since it was Veterans Day, there was also a parade down Congress Avenue, over the so-called Town River (the Colorado) and on to the Capitol, where the street dead-ended.
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