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单词 stalemate
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stalemate
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈsteɪl.meɪt/us
/ˈsteɪl.meɪt/
asituationin which neithergroupinvolvedin anargumentcanwinor get anadvantageand noactioncan be taken:
（争论的）僵局，僵持局面
Tomorrow'smeetingbetween the twoleadersisexpectedtobreakadiplomaticstalemate that haslastedfor tenyears.明天两位领导人之间的会面有望打破长达10年的外交僵局。
Despitelongdiscussions, theworkersand themanagementremainlockedinstalemate.尽管进行了长时间的磋商，工人和资方仍僵持不下。
inchess, apositionin which oneplayerisunabletomove, buttheirkingis not beingattacked, whichmeansthat neither of the twoplayerswins
（国际象棋中的）逼和（指一方在王棋未被将军的情况下无子可动）
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(Definition ofstalematefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

stalemate| American Dictionary

stalemate
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈsteɪlˌmeɪt/
asituationin which nothing canchangeor noactioncan be taken:
[U]Stalemate inCongressovereducationreformhas madevotersangry.
[C]Thearrivaloffreshtroopsbrokethemilitarystalemate.
(Definition ofstalematefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstalemate

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The president may also want to break political stalemates within her party or put pressure on her opponents to get her policies enacted.
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The international community is one of these, and is no less inclined to compromises in difficult political stalemates than the domestic players are.
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The seemingly unending cycles of war and peace, negotiations and stalemates, are a testament to the deep-seated and long-held feelings about the region.
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When the bankers refused to cooperate, the process stalemated.
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Fragmented governments, which result to a large extent from proportional representation rules, lead to political stalemates.
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Through the unilateral commitments to plans, assurances are generated and stalemates are ended.
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Cycles or stalemates threaten the legitimacy of a democratic system.
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How did the new regime attack thisstalemate?
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There must be some more effective way of breaking out of the ideologicalstalemate.
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In short, the entrenched ethnic-maximaliststalemateseems to have undermined the possibilities for forging working coalitions among the existing opposition parties.
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We then arrive at thestalematenoted above where all solutions have problematic aspects.
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Granting veto power, however, entails the danger of astalemateand thereby decreases rule efficiency.
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The exact effects of the resulting two decades ofstalemateare difficult to pin down, but two are unmistakable.
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The net result for those scholars not already committed to one or the other view seems to bestalemate.
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The approach sketched here may thus represent the best opportunity for dealing with a politicalstalematethat has persisted for too long.
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