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单词 impasse
释义
impasse
noun[U]
uk
/æmˈpæs/us
/ˈɪm.pæs/
asituationin whichprogressisimpossible,especiallybecause thepeopleinvolvedcannotagree:
绝境；僵局
Thedisputehadreachedan impasse, as neithersidewouldcompromise.由于双方都不肯让步，争端陷入僵局。
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(Definition ofimpassefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

impasse| American Dictionary

impasse
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/ˈɪm·pæs/
apointin aprocessat whichfurtherprogressisblocked,esp. bydisagreement:
We havereachedan impasse in thenegotiations-- neithersidewillbudge.
(Definition ofimpassefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

impasse| Business English

impasse
noun[S]
uk
/ˈæmpæs/us
/ˈɪmpæs/
asituationin whichfurtherdevelopmentisimpossible:
be at/remain at an impasseWithnegotiationsat an impasse,analystswarntheuncertaintymayharmsupermarketstocks.
todeclare/reachan impasse
tobreak/end/resolvean impasse
(Definition ofimpassefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimpasse

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Their disagreements contributed to theimpasseover budget policy in 1995 and the infamous partial federal government shutdown.
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If at this juncture a seemingimpasseis reached, at least two different conclusions can be drawn.
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Accentuating authenticity and a concomitant cultural autochthony, their vividness breeds essentialization and theoreticalimpasse.
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The narrow view of culture, limited to race or ethnic group, provided no solution to theimpasseover life support between her physicians and family.
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But, whereas the rationality axiom just leads to animpasse, the evolutionary approach suggests ways out.
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When the president's party likes the outcome of the legislativeimpasse, presidents willingly go down to defeat.
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Even as fine sentiments make bad literature, excellent evidence-based studies regularly hit practical impasses.
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Recent work in industrial policy and political theory takes seriously the historicalimpassewe now face.
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Ways to overcome such animpasseare examined, and eventually the solution is obtained.
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This leads to animpassein which neither player can act rationally.
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Here contemporary science is pretty much at animpasse.
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At the point that seemed at first to be a moralimpasse, the way for moral intellectual practice is in fact wide open.
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In certain ways, this paper is about personal and institutional patronage: the working out of a difficult theoreticalimpasserequires individual and collective moral support.
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The track leads, he might think, into a moralimpassein theory and into either anarchy or, worse, tyranny in practice.
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For students of multiculturalism, the move has offered a way out of an ideologicalimpasse.
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