logjam

noun

1. （河面上）漂浮原木造成的阻塞
   a mass of logs floating on a river, that are blocking it
2. （因事情太多造成的）困境，僵局
   a difficult situation in which you cannot make progress easily because there are too many things to do

1. N-COUNT 僵局；困局；死局
   To break the logjam means to change or deal with a difficult situation which has existed for a long time.
   1. A new initiative was needed to break the logjam.
      要打破僵局，就需要采取新的行动。

1. A new initiative was needed to break the logjam.
   要打破僵局，就需要采取新的行动。
2. One negative outcome of this logjam has been an inability to effectively confront inflation or deflation both of which periodically threaten to break through ECB target levels.
   这样的僵局所产生的一个不利结果就是无法有效应对通胀或通缩&二者都时不时地作势要突破欧洲央行设定的目标水平。
3. And until the tight global credit logjam really can be broken up, the currently tense economic climate will remain.
   直到全球信贷紧缩的僵局被真正打破，目前紧张的经济气候将会持续。
4. Bank of England policy makers indicated they are considering'further measures'to ease the logjam in credit markets.
   英国央行决策者们表示，他们正考虑采取进一步措施缓解信贷市场的紧张状况。
5. Instead of breaking the logjam, gridlock is spreading like an inkblot into US foreign policy.
   僵局不仅没有被打破，反而像墨水迹一样沁入美国的外交政策。
6. Permit approval would be the first advance for the plan since 2006, and would demonstrate Mr. Abe's ability to break a logjam that has foiled numerous predecessors.
   如果填埋获得批准，将是美军基地搬迁计划2006年来首次取得进展，并证明安倍晋三有能力打破这一已困扰多位前任的僵局。
7. We congratulate taiwan's leaders from all major parties for finding a way to break this logjam.
   我们恭喜台湾来自所有主要政党的领导人，一起找出打破这一僵局的方法。
8. But the logjam has to be broken.
   但必须打破僵局。
9. The specimen is one of a "logjam" of fossils including two meat-eating dinosaurs, a probable Stegosaurus, and four sauropods found recently at a dig in Utah.
   这块标本是一堆“混杂”化石的一部分&其中包括两条食肉恐龙，其中一条可能剑龙，和四条蜥脚类恐龙，这些化石是最近在犹他州的一次发掘中被发现的。
10. It might sound preposterous but the only way out of this logjam is to pull back the manufacturing base out of China.
    现在的办法也许是荒谬可笑的，但现在解决僵局的唯一办法就是将制造业移出中国。
11. The intercourse between Fujian and Taiwan occurred as early as Han Dynasty, but remained in a logjam for long time.
    福建与台湾两地早在汉代就开始了交往，但是却长期处于停滞状态。
12. In an effort to break the logjam in the Senate, Senator Miller and Republican Senator Phil Gramm have taken the lead in crafting a bipartisan alternative to the current flawed Senate bill.
    为了打破目前在参议院的僵局，参议员Miller和共和党议员PhilGramm已经牵头起草两党联合法案以替代目前错误的法案。
13. A logjam of us initial public offerings has stretched to its longest in four years while the number of companies withdrawing deals has increased.
    等待在美国进行首次公开发行（ipo）的企业数量达到了四年来的最高水平，而撤回上市申请的企业数量也有所增多。
14. They are counting on warmer bilateral ties to help break a logjam for US investment banks trying to expand their businesses in China, while also helping to smooth the approvals process for mergers and acquisitions, say the dealmakers.
    交易撮合者表示，他们正指望回暖的双边关系，能帮助试图在中国扩展业务的美国投资银行打破僵局，同时帮助清除收购审批方面的障碍。
15. Barack Obama said he wanted to see the logjam broken in the next couple of days and urged members of Congress to think in ambitious terms.
    奥巴马称，他希望未来几天能够打破僵局，敦促国会成员从更长远的眼光考虑问题。
16. Increasing numbers of indie filmmakers are getting their projects made, which is causing a logjam in distribution, said panelists at the International Film Financing Conference here.
    越来越多的独立制片人获得他们的号码是项目取得的，这是造成分配的僵局，与会人士表示，在国际电影融资会议在这里。
17. The experience of the early 1970s suggests that once the logjam has been broken and imbalances reduced, the Americans and the Chinese can focus on North Korea, Iran and other contentious issues.
    上世纪70年代初的经验告诉我们，一旦僵局被打破，失衡得到减轻，中美两国就可以将精力集中到朝鲜、伊朗及其它有争议的问题上。
18. However, during the process of incorporation, more and more obstacles causing by system, conflicts and their own benefits resulted in slowness or logjam of incorporation.
    然而，在两市经济一体化推进过程中，越来越多的体制性障碍和两市间利益冲突凸现出来，致使一些方面进展缓慢，甚至停滞不前，影响了西咸经济一体化的快速推进。
19. That not only broke the meeting logjam, but also laid the foundation of the peace between Egypt and Israel.
    此举不但打破了中东和平的僵局，而且为最终实现埃以和平奠定了基础。
20. As a result of these bottlenecks, the step of the researching on fractal has been in logjam in 21 century.
    正是由于这个瓶颈，进入21世纪，分形的研究停滞不前。
21. With the deepening of the innovation, most countries try to smash the finance logjam which formed traditionally and seek resource collocation all around the world.
    随着变革的不断深化，许多国家都在试图打破传统金融的疆域，在世界范围内寻求金融资源配置。

noun

1. an immovable mass of logs blocking a river

2. any stoppage attributable to unusual activity
   1. the legislation ran into a logjam