山穷水尽

I thought you were penniless. You haven't been as poor as a church mouse.

我原以为你已经身无分文了，你还没到山穷水尽的地步嘛。

Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getaway, but the second bungler's body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later. Would-be Robbers One and Two weren't exactly impoverished--their getaway car was a BMW.

调查人员最初认为他和他的同伙应该有逃跑用的东西，12小时之后，劫匪乙的尸体被从大楼废墟中挖出，很显然这两个家伙并没有山穷水尽——他们用来逃跑的还是一辆宝马哩。

In trying to solve economic problems by political demagoguery, Chiang Kai-shek had revealed the desperateness of his position to everyone.

蒋介石试图用蛊惑人心的政治手法解决经济问题，这反而使大家都看出，他已经到了山穷水尽的地步。

My friend Pete has been out of work six months and he's really behind the eight ball.

他说：我的朋友Pete失业有六个月了，可真是山穷水尽。

In the course of life, whether it is love, career, learning and so on, you move forward, to the subsequent discovery that is a dead-end, could not go on, and times of extreme sadness forlornness inevitable.

在生命的过程中，不论是爱情、事业、学问等等，你勇往直前，到后来竟然发现那是一条绝路，没法走下去了，山穷水尽悲哀失落的心境难免出现。

Little Chandler remembered one of Ignatius Gallaher's sayings when he was in a tight corner .

至今，小钱德勒还记得加拉赫在山穷水尽时说过的一次话。

Since he still had some goods in stock, he was not yet at the end of his means.

由于他仍有一些存货，他还未到山穷水尽的地步。

Caught in the pinch with a part sack of rice and a few pounds of dried apricots, rice and apricots was his menu three times a day for five days hand-running.

小厨房里再也没有种类繁多的食品，他已经山穷水尽，只剩下半袋米和几磅杏子干了。他的菜谱一连五天都是三餐大米加杏子干。

Its opening notes sound just like an ending, a passage of apparently clinching finality, after which we are introduced to a little snippet of tune that seems stuck in its own narrow groove, unable to get anywhere. All of this is then repeated almost verbatim in another key, and then, within another bar or two, we suddenly realize that somehow, despiteall this nonactivity, we're actually off and running. These are high jinks of the very highest order.

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General Kurt von Schleicher, who like his immediate predecessor, Franz von Papen, cared little for the Republic and less for its democracy, and who, also like him, had ruled as Chancellor by presidential decree without recourse to Parliament, had come to the end of his rope after fifty-seven days in office.

库特·冯·施莱彻尔将军，像他的前任弗朗兹·冯·巴本一样，一点也不喜欢共和国，更谈不上喜欢共和国的民主了，而且他也像他的前任一样，未经议会授权，是靠总统命令担任总理一职的。在执政57 天之后，他就已到了山穷水尽、走投无路的地步。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。