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单词 cul-de-sac
释义
cul-de-sac (kŭldĭ-săk, kl-)
n. pl. cul-de-sacs or culs-de-sac (kŭlz-, klz-)
1.
a. A dead-end street, especially one ending in a circular turnaround.
b. A circular turnaround at the end of a dead-end street.
c. An impasse: "This was the cul-de-sac the year kept driving me toward: men and women would always be at odds" (Philip Weiss).
2. Anatomy A saclike cavity or tube open only at one end.

[French : cul, bottom (from Old French, from Latin cūlus; see CULET) + de, of (from Old French, from Latin dē; see DE-) + sac, sack (from Old French, from Latin saccus; see SACK1).]
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