stalemates的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-VAR僵局;僵持

Stalemate is a situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can win or in which no progress is possible.

• President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit...

  布什總統已結束了在削減國家預算赤字的措施上形成的僵局。

• He said the war had reached a stalemate and that a political accord was the only solution.

  他說戰爭已陷入僵局，政治協議是唯一的解決辦法。

N-VAR(國際象棋的)和棋

In chess, stalemate is a position in which a player cannot make any move which is allowed by the rules, so that the game ends and no one wins.