穷途 (qióng tú) — dead end; hopeless situation; destitution; straitened circumstances
Definition
Literary/figurative 'dead end' — a hopeless situation with no way forward, used in writing about people or enterprises at their wits' end.
noun
dead endhopeless situationdestitutionstraitened circumstances
Examples
- 穷途。Tā jué de zì jǐ yǐ jīng zǒu dào le qióng tú.He felt he had reached a dead end.
- 穷途，。Zài qióng tú zhōng, tā yī rán méi yǒu fàng qì xī wàng.In the hopeless situation, he still did not give up hope.
- ，穷途。Nà ge gōng sī bīn lín pò chǎn, yǐ rù qióng tú mò lù.That company is on the verge of bankruptcy and has reached a dead end.
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