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单词 blind alley
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blind alley

Word forms: plural blind alleys
countable noun
If you describe a situation as a blind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
Ben wanted to go to drama school, which I worried would end up being a blind alley.

blind alley in British English

noun
1. 
an alley open at one end only; cul-de-sac
2.  informal
a situation in which no further progress can be made

blind alley in American English

1. 
an alley or passage shut off at one end
2. 
any undertaking, idea, etc. that leads to nothing

Examples of 'blind alley' in a sentence
blind alley

It saves you and your doctor going down blind alleys.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was painstaking work with many blind alleys and fruitless inquiries.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In this chapter we will look at some of the more common blind alleys down which people disappear while pursuing happiness.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
He said that resources were being wasted as a result with different research programmes heading up blind alleys one after each other.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

Chinese translation of 'blind alley'

blind alley

n (c)

  1. (US, without exit) 死胡同 (sǐhútòng) (条(條), tiáo)
    英 = cul-de-sac
  2. (fig) 无(無)出路 (wú chūlù)

Nearby words of
blind alley

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