point of no return

1. The release of Mr Nelson Mandela marked the point of no return in South Africa's movement away from apartheid.
   纳尔逊·曼德拉先生的释放标志着南非种族隔离政策一去不复返。
2. If you try to proselytize someone, or battle them over a hot topic like abortion, you may reach a point of no return.
   你试图让对方信仰，或者在堕胎的敏感问题上说服对方，那你以后想要观点也不行了。
3. But the situation in Greece has now reached what looks like a point of no return. Banks are temporarily closed and the government has imposed capital controls& limits on the movement of funds out of the country.
   然而希腊的处境现在似乎到了无可挽回的地步，银行暂时关闭、政府采取了资本控制措施，限制资金流出希腊。
4. The Bulletin believes that the world may have neared what it called a point of no return in efforts to prevent catastrophe from changes in Earth's atmosphere.
   公报称世界或许已经接近了地球气候变暖引发大灾难的不可逆转之点。
5. But the Iraq war marked the point of no return because it was based on a false prospectus: that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
   但真正让他无路可退的是伊拉克战争，因为发动这场战争是基于一个误判：萨达姆侯赛因（saddamhussein）拥有大规模杀伤性武器。
6. The way you behaved the other night has pushed me past a point of no return.
   的方式来表现，那天晚上推动了过去的我不归路。
7. She made a little sound of alarm as we stepped on, but we'd passed the point of no return.
   我们迈上扶梯时，她轻轻地尖叫了一声，然而，既然我们已踏上了扶梯，也就不能再回头了。
8. We can harness the ingenuity of farmers and scientists; citizens and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil and save our planet from a point of no return.
   我们可以箝制农夫及科学家们无穷无尽的新花样，可以让大众及企业家节约用油，不让地球走向不归路。
9. These are two elements that are not inexhaustible, and we must realize that once we reach the point of no return, there will be nothing left for future generations.
   空气和水这两种物质并非取之不竭，我们必须认识到，一旦到了无可挽回的地步，我们的子孙就将一无所有。
10. The point of no return may have been passed already.
    可能已经到了非干到底不可的地步了。
11. We've passed the point of no return.
    我们已越过了不归点。
12. Your Planet and your very reality is about to change in the biggest way you could struggle to imagine, and you still have time to consider all of your options, before the point of no return.
    你们的行星和世界即将于你们难以想象地极大地转变，在那不可逆转的点开始之前，你们还有时间考虑你们的选择。
13. We've spent so much money on the project that we've passed the point of no return and we shall have to spend even more to finish it.
    我们已在这工程上花了很多钱，现在已处于只能进不能退的地步，我们必须再追加投资将工程完成。
14. We have now reached the point of no return.
    我们现在已经到了无法回头的地步。
15. S.movie'Point of No Return'and a1997 series on the USA network.
    美国电影《双面女蝎星》（PointofNoReturn）和USA电视网1997年的一部电视剧也是自《尼基塔女郎》改编而来。
16. In everybody's life there is a point of no return.
    在每个人的一生中总会遇到一个不可逆转的时刻。
17. With numbed hands he scratched with his pencil, working out their position-halfway to ireland, the point of no return.
    他用麻木的手握着铅笔涂写着，算出他们的位置到爱尔兰还有一半路程，已经到达航线临界点，返回是不可能的了。
18. EJ: Are you afraid that our pace in America has just gotten too fast and that we've gotten beyond the point of no return when it comes to enjoying eating?
    《魔力英语》：你担心美国人的节奏已经快到无法回到从容享受就餐的地步了吗？
19. Throughout the stand-off, the risk has always been that acts of violence might occur that take the conflict between students and the authorities beyond the point of no return.
    在整个对峙中，风险一直在于可能会发生极端暴力行为、让学生与政府之间的冲突发展到无可挽回的地步。
20. If you hem and haw about whether or not you want to be in a relationship you will disappoint the person who interests you to the point of no return.
    无论你是否想要确定关系，若只会吞吞吐吐，不敢表明立场，一定会让人大失所望。
21. Financially, that country has passed the point of no return.
    从金融角度看，该国已经越过了极限点，有去无回了。
22. Sometime between the first team meeting eight months ago and today, each person in the room had passed his own point of no return.
    从八个月前的第一次小组会议到今天，这房间里的每一个人都已走到无法回头的地步。
23. This is a month when you almost reach the point of no return committing to a new relationship, but you know better than that.
    这将是一个即使没有建立新的关系，但是你也会有所收获的月份。
24. Experimental starvation on hucho taimen and definition of the point of no return
    哲罗鱼仔鱼饥饿实验及不可逆生长点的确定
25. It cannot be taken for granted once the economy has passed through some point of no return like a takeoff stage.
    不能想当然地认为，一旦经济走过一个阶段，如起飞阶段，就不会产生倒退了。
26. If Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are facing their moment of truth, then Israel is fast approaching the point of no return in its relations with the Palestinians.
    如果说叙利亚、伊朗和沙特阿拉伯正在面临各自的关键时刻，那么以色列与巴勒斯坦的关系正在迅速走上不归路。
27. He did not wish to drive the crisis beyond the point of no return.
    他并不希望把危机推到无可挽回的地步。
28. Leape sees a continuation of current consumption trends as leading the world "to the point of no return".
    利普认为，目前的消费趋势如果持续下去，将把世界带上一条“不归路”。
29. Gaia has entered the8th segment of transformation; she is now in the point of no return.
    盖亚已经进入了转型的第8阶段。她现在所处的位置已经不可能再回头。
30. Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return, and in a very few cases, a point where you can't forward anymore.
    卡夫卡，我们的人生有个至此再后退不得的临界点，另外，虽然情况十分少见，但至此再前进不得的点也是有的。

noun

1. a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment

   Synonym:    Rubicon