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单词 stalemate
释义
stalemate
(stlmeɪt )
Word forms: stalemates
1. variable noun
Stalemate is a situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can win or in which no progress is possible.
The President has ended the stalemate over cutting the country's budget deficit.
He said the war had reached a stalemate and that a political accord was the only solution.
Synonyms: deadlock, draw, tie, impasse  
2. variable noun
In chess, stalemate is a position in which a player cannot make any move which is allowed by the rules, so that the game ends and no one wins.
Collocations:
resolve a stalemate
Nobody knows how to resolve the stalemate.
Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps we might resolve this stalemate through the abolition of hereditary peerages?
Times, Sunday Times
I do not know how else you might have resolved this stalemate.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 僵局
Japanese: ステイルメイト
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