| 释义 |
back someone into a cornerForce someone into a difficult situation: I was backed into a corner - there was no way out...- Absolute compassion - whereby any form of killing is forbidden - backs us into a corner.
- During the last two decades of his life, Arafat found himself backed into a corner.
- Such manoeuvres, however, are perhaps the inevitable consequence of scientists who are backed into a corner.
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