- A logjam is just what it sounds like: a bunch of logs all jammed together, blocking the flow of water in a river or stream. You can also call other kinds of blockages logjams — like a traffic logjam that develops due to rubbernecking drivers trying to check out a crash.
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- n. 僵局；（河道等）受圆木阻塞；停滞状态；拥挤
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1. But signs of collaboration could unblock the logjam in the Senate and in international talks.
但合作的信号可能打破在美国参议院和国际谈判中的僵局。
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2. The logjam was broken this afternoon when Brown yielded on condition that Britain obtained the foreign policy job in return.
今天下午，直到布朗以英国人相应获得外交政策职位为条件作出让步，僵局才被打破。
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3. It took the 1957 launch of Sputnik, the Soviet satellite, to break the policy logjam.
1957年苏联发射人造卫星“斯普特尼克”1号，这才打破了政策僵局。
log·jam / ˈlɒɡdʒæm ; NAmE ˈlɔːɡdʒæm ; ˈlɑːɡdʒæm / noun 1 a difficult situation in which you cannot make progress easily because there are too many things to do （因事情太多造成的）困境，僵局 SYN bottleneck 2 a mass of logsfloating on a river and blocking it （河面上）漂浮原木造成的阻塞 logjam logjams log·jam / ˈlɒɡdʒæm ; NAmE ˈlɔːɡdʒæm ; ˈlɑːɡdʒæm /
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