stalemate
英 ['steɪlmeɪt]
美['stelmet]
- n. 僵局；陷于困境
- vt. 使僵持；使陷入困境
- vi. 僵持；陷入僵局
词态变化
复数: stalemates;
助记提示
1. So etymologically, when you reach stalemate in chess, you have to 'stand' or 'halt' where you are, going neither forward nor back.
2. stale + checkmate => stalemate.
3. in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate".
2. stale + checkmate => stalemate.
3. in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate".
中文词源
stalemate 僵局
来自古义 stale,固定的，僵持的，mate,杀，将军，词源同 checkmate.引申比喻义僵局。
英英释意
- 1. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible;
- "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
- 2. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
英文词源
- stalemate
- stalemate: [18] Stalemate is a compound noun, based on the now obsolete stale ‘stalemate’. And this in turn was probably borrowed from Anglo- Norman estale ‘fixed position’, a derivative of Old French estaler ‘halt’, which also underlies English stale and stall. So etymologically, when you reach stalemate in chess, you have to ‘stand’ or ‘halt’ where you are, going neither forward nor back.
- stalemate (n.)
- 1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885. As a verb from 1765; figurative from 1861.
实用场景例句
- The talks ended in (a) stalemate.
- 谈判陷入僵局，无果而终。
牛津词典
- President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit...
- 布什总统已结束了在削减国家预算赤字的措施上形成的僵局。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He said the war had reached a stalemate and that a political accord was the only solution.
- 他说战争已陷入僵局，政治协议是唯一的解决办法。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- South s Minister Yu says diplomacy may produce some movement on the stalemate soon.
- 韩国外长柳明桓表示,外交手段对解决目前的僵持局面有可能起到某种促进作用.
期刊摘选
- The second stage may be termed one of strategic stalemate.
- (三七)第二阶段,可以名之曰战略的相持阶段.
期刊摘选
- This is right the paper industry of stalemate at dawn of a gleam of.
- 这对正陷于困境的报纸行业而言,无异于一线曙光.
期刊摘选
- Still in stalemate than among large steel enterprises, smallmedium steel mills are much more flexible.
- 比起尚在胶着之中的大钢企, 中小钢厂则灵活得多.
期刊摘选
- Discussions are locked in stalemate.
- 讨论陷于僵局.
《简明英汉词典》
- Without substantive talks, a lengthy and disruptive stalemate on the streets of Bangkok appears likely.
- 在没有实质性谈判的情况下, 曼谷街头可能会陷入漫长而引发动荡的僵局.
期刊摘选
- You ask if the War of Resistance has reached the stage of stalemate.
- 先生们提到抗战的相持阶段是否到来的问题.
期刊摘选
- Efforts to break the stalemate in the peace talks continue.
- 打破和平谈判僵局的努力仍在继续.
《简明英汉词典》
- Negotiations between the two sides have already been locked in stalemate for a long time.
- 双方谈判已经相持了很久.
期刊摘选
- As the stalemate persists, the big losers, as ever, are the Palestinian people themselves.
- 如果僵局仍然持续, 最大输家还是巴勒斯坦人民自己, 就像以前一样.
期刊摘选
- Tom Hagen : We can't afford a stalemate.
- 他们没有我们损失那么大.
期刊摘选
- The war was at a stalemate.
- 战争处于相持阶段.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- So sometimes the negotiations impasse, is in a stalemate on the issue.
- 有时谈判所以出现僵局, 是僵持在某个问题上.
期刊摘选
- Both operations failed, and the Italian campaign bogged down to a dreary stalemate.
- 但这两项行动都以失败而告终.意大利战争再度陷入一筹莫展的僵局.
期刊摘选
- The meeting reached a stalemate.
- 这次会议陷入了僵局.
期刊摘选
- They clawed their way back, but only to stalemate.
- 等他们慢吞吞的回过头来时, 却只发现那是条死胡同.
期刊摘选
- After eight months of stalemate, the Allies withdrew, leaving 10,000 dead amongst the Anzacs.
- 联军在经历八个月的僵持后彻退, 遗下上万的阵亡将士.
期刊摘选
- For the time being, however, a stalemate prevails, with Gazans as glum as before.
- 可是, 一个僵局就暂时形成了, 加沙人还是和以前一样苦闷.
期刊摘选
- In this sense, basically the War of Resistance has reached the stage of strategic stalemate.
- 在这种意义上, 抗战的战略相持阶段基本上已经到来.
期刊摘选
- Both armies paused a breathless stalemate, waiting to see to whose side Man would eventually turn.
- 双方军队在悄无声息的对峙僵局中停顿下来, 观望人类最终加入哪方战团.
期刊摘选
- The fight resulted in a stalemate.
- 战斗形成对峙局面.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The stalemate in the trade talks continues.
- 贸易谈判的僵持仍在继续.
《简明英汉词典》
- You should probably only make an Ion Cannon Control Center in a stalemate.
- 你应该只在僵持阶段建造离子炮控制中心.
期刊摘选
- From the moment It'started, this war looked like ending in stalemate.
- 从其开始的那一刻, 这场战争就看起来像结束在对峙状态中.
期刊摘选
- All the meetings ended in stalemate.
- 所有会谈都以僵局而告终.
期刊摘选
- So far the stalemate between the Bucks and the Yi camp continues.
- 眼下,雄鹿队和易之队之间的僵局还在继续.
期刊摘选
- Two alternative systems are useful to avoid this stalemate.
- 此时采用下列两种系统之一便可加以解决.
辞典例句