Deadlock

(noun.) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; 'reached an impasse on the negotiations'.

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• In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was, says Gilbert Murray, a way of arriving at a decision in a case when political feeling was so divided as to threaten a deadlock. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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