dead-end

基本解释

Thus the tasty new banana was spared from an otherwise unavoidable evolutionary dead-end.
这样一来，美味的香蕉就这样定型了，没有陷入难以避免的进化死胡同。
He is faced with dead-end discoveries, therapeutic disasters and revelations that lead only to more mysteries.
他面临着走入死胡同的探索，面临着彻底失败的治疗方法，面临只会带来更多谜团的启示。
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.
虽然有些人也许会幸运地踏上成功的道路；而另一些人却没有，他们的缺乏规划导致工作走进了死胡同。
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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?
狗跟这个人说，”你不觉得很奇怪吗，你做这份没出头之日的工作,你的才智比你上司高一倍？
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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.