单词 | Catch-22 |
释义 | Catch-22Word family adjectivecatchablecatchycatch-allCatch-22catchweightnouncatchercatchinesscatchingcatchmentcatchflycatchment areacatchpennycatchphrasecatchweedcatchwordverbcatch Catch-22 /ˌkætʃ twentiˈtuː/ noun [uncountableU] PROBLEMan impossible situation that you cannot solve because you need to do one thing in order to do a second thing, but you cannot do the first thing until you have done the second 左右为难,无法摆脱的困境,进退维谷 It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience. 这是一个悖论——没有经验就找不到工作,可是没有工作又得不到经验。 Examples from the Corpus Catch-22• This is a Catch-22 I don't think rugby will be able to spin out of in this country. From Longman Business Dictionary catch-22catch-22 /ˌkætʃ twenti ˈtuː/ noun [uncountableU] a situation in which it seems impossible to make progress because you cannot do one thing until you have done another thing, but the second thing cannot happen until the first thing has happened It’s a catch-22 situation; without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience. (1900-2000) Catch-22 book (1961) by Joseph Heller in which such situations are described |
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