Impasses
n. 绝境（impasse的复数形式）
🗣️ 情景例句
I see, it's not easy to marry and start a family. So when's the wedding?
我明白，要组织一个家庭并不容易。那么婚礼订在哪天举行？
The school is just around the corner.
学校只在拐角附近。
but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves.
但是早期记录地震波的仪器（测震仪）正是采用了这种思路。