Cul-de-sac: A street or passage closed at one end; A short road that is blocked off at one end; Literally French for "bottom of a sack," it also means "situation from which there is no escape"; A situation that leads nowhere.
As in The factory was set at the end of a cul-de-sac.
中文释义：cul-de-sac 的本来意思是“袋底”。sac是袋，cul 是底，英文叫做bottom。cul-de-sac 经常使用在一个小街道的最后不再有通路的部分。但是，这与死胡同有些不同。在美国，因为大家都开车，所以，小街街底通常会有个回转车的类似袋装的路面。一般家庭的孩子可以比较安全的在这样的路面玩耍。cul-de-sac 还常用来比喻困境，绝境，僵局。例句：The factory was set at the end of a cul-de-sac.（ 工厂建在一个死胡同的尽头。)
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