The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.

我们想走的头一条路结果是条死胡同。

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There was another alleyway which came to a dead end just behind the house.

还有一个小巷，就在这房子后面形成了死胡同。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Every hunch led to a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end.

每一次直觉都是死路一条，每一次假设都是死胡同。

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The new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, recently said the peace process is at "a dead end."

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So, I said, okay, I didn't want to assume so we clicked senior and frankly it was then a dead end because apparently to get some senior discount you need to have some special pass or something like this that we didn't have and yet that certainly wasn't obvious here so now we together and this person in particular had to figure out how you go back and then restart this process.

我说，好的，我不希望揣测，所以我点击了老人票,然后问题就来了，因为似乎,需要特殊的号码之类的东西来购买老年票,但是我们没有,明显我们不应该走这步,现在我们一起必须找出,怎样返回，然后重新开始这个步骤。

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The animal that eats its offspring, those genes are a biological dead end.

吃掉自己后代的动物，他们的基因走进了生物学的死胡同。

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Here's the kicker: There are also misleading signs that lead to a dead end.

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That's because any more strolls down tobacco road are likely to lead to a dead end.

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That was a dead end, but Schering was desperately seeking a thrombin receptor drug.

FORBES: A New Hope For Schering-Plough