熟词生义：“blindalley”不是指“看不见的胡同”！

大家好，今天我们分享的表达是“blind alley”,它的中文意思并不是“看不见的胡同”，其真实的含义是指：
blind alley 死胡同；绝境； 绝路
This sort of thinking just seems to be leading us up/down a blind alley.
这种想法似乎只会将我们引入死胡同。
Progress in science cannot be made without exploring blind alleys.
没有在绝境中的探索就没有科学的进步。

The Internet has proved a blind alley for many firms.
事实证明因特网对许多公司而言是一条行不通的路。
After spending years trying to prove his hypothesis but failing to get the results he had hoped for, the physicist feared that he had wasted too much time heading down a blind alley.
在花了几年时间尝试他的假设，但是没有得到他希望的结果后，这位物理学家担心他花了太多时间走入了一条死胡同。