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- an end of a road or passage from which no exit is possible巷路的尽头。
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- a road or passage having such an end死路, 死胡同。
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- a situation offering no prospects of progress or development僵局, 无出路的局面：
as modifier a dead-end job.没有出路的工作。
no obj.(dead-end)
- N. Amer. (of a road or passage) come to a dead end〈北美〉（道路, 通道）到尽头, 终止：
he kept walking, until the corridor dead-ended.
他一直走到走廊的尽头。