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| Processed by: | richwarm (2018-07-16 08:40:25 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 62573 - submitted by 'sl89' >> 【Wenlin】 f.e. no way out; doomed 【Pleco】 go nowhere; meet one's doom 企业若不能参与到尚存论说的群体中，只有死路一条。 Companies that do not belong to a community of discourse will die. 如果你认为钱财能够永远给你带来快乐的话，那你走的死路一条。 If you think money will bring happiness forever, you are walking into a blind alley. 如果他在这里埋伏一支队伍，今天我们只有死路一条了。 If he had an army waiting in ambush over there, I would have no way out . 在权力的游戏之中，你不当赢家，就只有死路一条，没有中间地带。 When you play the game of thrones , you win or you die. There is no middle ground. 资本主义是死路一条，那里根本没有未来可言。 Capitalism is a dead end; there is no future for it ----------------------------------- Editor: 1) "to be doomed" matches the verb phrase 只有死路一条, but 死路一条 is only used as a noun, as far as I can see. 2) Given that we have a definition for 死路, this entry for 死路一条 does little more than confirm that it's a set phrase. 3) A more interesting word in your example sentences, missing from cc-cedict, is 论说. I'll put in a sub for that. |
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# 死路一條 死路一条 [si3 lu4 yi1 tiao2] /to be doomed/dead end/ + 死路一條 死路一条 [si3 lu4 yi1 tiao2] /(idiom) dead end/road to ruin/ |