blind alley

英 [ˌblaɪnd ˈæli]

美 [ˌblaɪnd ˈæli]

n.  行不通的方法; 死胡同

计算机

牛津词典

noun

• 行不通的方法；死胡同
  a way of doing sth that seems useful at first, but does not produce useful results, like following a path that suddenly stops

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 死胡同；绝路；困境
  If you describe a situation as ablind alley, you mean that progress is not possible or that the situation can have no useful results.
  1. The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.
     事实证明，因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。

英英释义

noun

• (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
  1. all the clues led the police into blind alleys
  2. so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley
• a street with only one way in or out
  Synonym:cul de sacdead-end streetimpasse

双语例句

• The witness is going to lead the jury to a blind alley.
  这个证人将把陪审团引入死胡同。
• This was the blind alley from which the Roman world had no way out: slavery was economically impossible, the labor of freemen was morally ostracized.
  于是罗马世界便陷入了绝境：奴隶制在经济上已经不可能了，而自由人的劳动却在道德上受鄙视。
• Taking blind alley gas as the main research object, this paper expounds the distribution laws of blind alley gas, and probes into the methods for the gas emission and some matters needing attention.
  以盲巷瓦斯为主要研究对象，阐述了盲巷瓦斯的分布规律，探讨了排放瓦斯的方法和注意事项。
• The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.
  事实证明，因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。
• I did not adopt his idea because I was pretty sure that it was a blind alley.
  我没有采纳他的意见，因为我十分肯定那是行不通的。
• You're going down a blind alley, fiedler.
  你在走死胡同，费德勒。
• I'm afraid our present course of action may turn out to be a blind alley.
  我担心我们目前这种干法可能是条死胡同。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.
  这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。
• Or was he moving into still another blind alley?
  不然他是不是又在向一条死胡同里钻。
• You don't know how much of it ends up in a blind alley.
  你不知道有多大一部分走进了死胡同。