词汇释义
stalemate TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈsteɪl.meɪt/ US /ˈsteɪl.meɪt/
1. noun, Stalemate is a situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can win or in which no progress is possible.僵局，僵持
2. noun, a position in chess in which neither player can win. (国际象棋的)无子可动，僵局，和棋
外刊例句
1. The question about 2013 is whether that stalemate can be broken and to whose advantage.(The Guardian - Opinion)
2. In the weeks after the latest stalemate, these fears seemed to be borne out by a gamekeeper seeking permission to protect the pheasants he breeds by "controlling" buzzards.(The Guardian)
3. With little likelihood of that happening in the short term, the stalemate could drag on for months.(The Guardian)
4. He might just have won over one or two new admirers by scoring the winner against Sampdoria on Tuesday, in a game that otherwise might easily have finished as a goalless stalemate between uninspired teams.(The Guardian - Sport)
5. The clause is sufficiently ambiguous to leave doubts over how the stalemate will be resolved.(The Guardian - Sport)
6. They have ground out a number of narrow wins since Christmas and haven't featured in a single stalemate in that time.(The Guardian - Sport)
7. In the speech, which took place at the religious city of Mashhad, Khamenei dismissed claims by western officials that there are people in Iran who are opposed to a diplomatic solution to the current stalemate over the country's nuclear programme.(The Guardian)
8. After more than two months of near stalemate, rebel groups have advanced into three government-held areas of central Aleppo, ahead of the ceasefire.(The Guardian)
9. Given the accusations of complacency, Chelsea probably did not merit morethan a stalemate.(The Guardian - Sport)
10. The stalemate gives me the opportunity to highlight an issue that continues to puzzle.(The Guardian - Sport)
11. The home side had offered the more coherent threat, their menace built on the tigerish industry of Sandro and Joey Barton in central midfield, but the derby had been horribly scrappy on a scarred surface which suggested stalemate.(The Guardian - Sport)
12. The peace process that followed the 2013 ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) may now also receive a much-needed shot in the arm, after a recent period of stalemate and sporadic violence.(The Guardian)
13. In the pre-1989 world, MAD signified the nuclear stalemate between the US and the Soviet Union – that there was peace for more than four decades, despite the world being split into two competing ideological camps, because of the threat of each side being obliterated by the other.(The Guardian)
14. A nightmare stalemate may be the outcome on 7 May – more populist, more localist than ever before.(The Guardian)
15. But the stalemate in peace talks – neither Netanyahu, Abbas nor Hamas appear ready to concede any point – means American action or inaction is a variable for the first time in decades.(The Guardian)
词汇搭配
political, current stalemate | end in, reach, break, result in stalemate | stalemate continue | stalemate on, over, in
词汇来源
1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885. As a verb from 1765; figurative from 1861.
近义词
deadlock, gridlock, impasse, logjam, standoff, standstill
反义词
progress, breakthrough, success, start, continuation
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