The whole of human history is testament to the fact that vast sections of mankind can seem to be progressing towards what looks like an established goal, only to get sidetracked into cul-de-sacs, sometimes for decades, occasionally for centuries.

Even then, I tended to end up in cul-de-sacs of oppressive, overpriced crystal chandeliers, marble mantel pieces, gilt-framed mirrors and Italian floor lamps in the shape of palm trees.

但即使有了地图，我还是差点走进死胡同，陷入昂贵水晶吊灯、大理石壁炉台、镀金框镜子和棕榈树造型的意大利落地灯的包围之中。

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The people of Palatine, Ill., a middle-class suburb of Chicago marked by generic strip malls and tidy cul-de-sacs, had not spent much time debating the thorny questions of transgender rights.

伊利诺伊州的帕拉蒂诺是芝加哥郊外的中产社区，有着随处可见的商业街和整洁的死巷。那里的居民并没有花多少时间去探讨棘手的跨性别者权益问题。

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Owing to the limitless enlargement of imperial power and the disappearance of the prime minister's power, the Chinese feudal society lost its self-regulating mechanism and certainly it caused the feudal society to go into a cul-de-sac.

由于皇权无限扩大，相权消失使中国封建社会自我调节机制消失，导致封建社会必然“穷途末路”。

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That would sharply boost the morale of a Republican party that has been portrayed as stuck in an ideological cul-de-sac in recent years, reliant on a declining voter base of ageing white men.

这将大幅提振共和党的士气。该党近年被描绘成陷入意识形态死胡同，依靠人数不断下降的老年白人选民支持。

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The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even noticing that it was no longer in its place.

让洛死胡同里的灯自然也和别处一样，是黑着的，甚至有人走过也不会注意到它已不在原来的位置上了。

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Last time round, Mr Abe was obsessed with his vision of a "beautiful Japan", a predilection that led him down a policy cul-de-sac of whitewashing history.

上次担任首相时，安倍晋三一门心思要建设一个“美丽的日本”，这种倾向把他引向了“美化历史”的政策死胡同。

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Flames leapt from building to building along cul-de-sacs on the edge of the foothills, as palm and pine trees exploded in flames.

山脚边缘的房间全部被燃着，棕榈树、松树林也未能幸免。

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But now the reputation of this cul-de-sac in the human gut has been rehabilitated by a theory from a team of immunologists.

但现在，来自一组免疫学家的理论恢复了这一人体消化道内盲管的名声。

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Methods Transverse and longitudinal section scanning was carried out in uterus, bilateral adnexa, cervix and dauglus s cul-de-sac in established cases.

方法：对临床确诊的女性淋病患者，经超声对子宫及双侧附件、子宫颈、子宫后穹窿部位横切及纵切扫描。

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Other contributors to the book say an excessive focus on saving manufacturing may even be harmful if it draws resources from more promising exits from the economic cul-de-sac.

这本书的其他撰稿者表示，如果日本经济死胡同有更好的出口，而制造业会从这些出口挖走更多资源，那么过分强调拯救制造业甚至可能反而有害。

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I'm the king of the cul-de-sac.

我是这个小角落里的国王。

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The latest cul-de-sac is the effort to include private investors in a second round of financing planned for Greece, while avoiding a credit event.

试图在让私营部门投资者参与希腊第二轮融资计划的同时避免发生信用事件，无疑是它最新走进的一条死胡同。

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cul-de-sac Painting proved to be a cul-de-sac for Philip Carey, as he had no real talent.

绘画对菲力蒲·卡瑞来说是死路一条，因为他没有真正的天份。

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Safe for guests'cars in this cul-de-sac, or early bird parking for the first six cars in the front paved courtyard.

房屋位于巷头，无需担忧客人的停车安全，早到的前六位客人可以在屋内庭院中停车。

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The solution to this millenarian cul-de-sac is to create more creative zombie narratives.

对这个千年难解之题的解决方法是创造更多有创意的僵尸故事。

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After the 1970s, Stockhausen seemed to disappear up his own cul-de-sac of experimental noise.

二十世纪七十年代后，施托克豪森似乎消失在实验噪音研究的死胡同尽头。

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I am in a financial cul-de-sac.

我现在在财务的死胡同里。

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Painting proved to be a cul-de-sac for Philip Carey, as he had no real talent.

绘画对于菲利普·凯里来说是死路一条，因为他没有真正的天分。

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Cul-de-sac can also be used metaphorically to express an action that leads to nowhere or an impasse 。

Cul-de-sac也用于比喻没有结果或陷入绝境的行动。

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Morphological changes of human peritoneum during peritoneal dialysis Application of amniotic membrane transplantation to plasty of the cul-de-sac

腹膜透析对人腹膜形态结构的影响羊膜移植在结膜囊成形术中的应用

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