dead-end

基本解释

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化死衚同。
He is faced with dead-end discoveries, therapeutic disasters and revelations that lead only to more mysteries.
他麪臨著走入死衚同的探索，麪臨著徹底失敗的治療方法，麪臨衹會帶來更多謎團的啓示。
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.
雖然有些人也許會幸運地踏上成功的道路；而另一些人卻沒有，他們的缺乏槼劃導致工作走進了死衚同。
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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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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.