Chris has talked about pandas being an evolutionary cul-de-sac, and it's certainly unusual for a carnivore to take up herbivory.

克里斯曾经说熊猫是进化的尽头，而对于食肉动物来说，摄取食草动物是很不寻常的。

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The cul-de-sac stasis of life in the suburban middle class?

是郊区中产阶级生活的静止的死胡同？

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I would drive through the villages, around estates and cul-de-sacs, past farms and terraces.

我开车经过村庄，绕过屋舍和死巷，经过农场和梯田。

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Let's just say that you have a child who lives up here, say in this cul-de-sac, and is friends with a child who lives over here.

假设有你有一个孩子住在这儿,在这条死胡同里,他有个朋友住在这

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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He lives in a neat house on a quiet cul-de-sac, rigged with radio-controlled motion detectors.

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Indeed, economists' obsessive pursuit of theory has led them into a cul-de-sac, detached from reality.

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