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今天我们要学的词是 impasse¹.

Impasse的意思是僵局，The United States has imposed sanctions on two North Korean-controlled IT companies amid an impasse between the two countries over the pace of North Korea's dismantling² of its nuclear weapons program，在美国和朝鲜就其解除核武计划的速度问题上陷入僵局之际，美国对两家朝鲜控制的信息技术公司实施了制裁。Diplomatic impasses³ in the Horn of Africa continue to be resolved with the announcement recently that Eritrea and Djibouti will normalize relations, 随着厄立特里亚和吉布提最近宣布双方关系将正常化，非洲之角地区仍在努力解决外交僵局。

1 impasse   

n.僵局；死路

参考例句：

• The government had reached an impasse.政府陷入绝境。
• Negotiations seemed to have reached an impasse.谈判似乎已经陷入僵局。

2 dismantling   

（枪支）分解

参考例句：

• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
• The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。

3 impasses   

绝境（impasse的复数形式）

参考例句：

• In the history of coalition warfare such impasses have been common, and sometimes disastrous. 在联合作战的历史中，这种相持不下的局面是很普通的，往往也是灾难性的。
• I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. 眼看问题经纬万端，进退两难、入困境，死路一条，盘根错节的命定可能性，但找不到明显的出路。