impasse
impasse 英 [ˈæmpɑ:s] 美 [ˈɪmpæs]
n. 僵局；绝境
名词复数:impasses
- When two huge semi trailers met face-to-face on a one-lane mountain road, the drivers jumped out of their cabs and exclaimed, "We're at an impasse! We can't move forward — we can only reverse and go back in the direction from which we came."
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- n. 僵局；绝境
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1. to break the impasse, to end the impasse
打破╱结束僵局
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2. Negotiations have reached an impasse.
谈判已陷入僵局。
- impasse (n.) 1763, "blind alley, dead end," from French impasse "impassable road; blind alley; impasse" (18c.), from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + passe "a passing," from passer "to pass" (see pass (v.)). Figurative use (c. 1840) is perhaps from its use in whist. Supposedly coined by Voltaire as a euphemism for cul de sac.
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