Catch-22

Catch-22['kætʃ,twenti'tu:]

• n.
  • 22's, Catch-22s
  • [美国英语]第二十二条军规；受骗者无法摆脱的圈套(或困境)；难以逾越的障碍(或法规)；自相矛盾的规定[亦作catch-22，catch-22 situation。出自美国作家 J.Heller的小说Catch-22(1961)]
  • (存在令人困惑不解的矛盾的)隐秘的困难
  • 左右为难的处境，面对两个都不愿选择的处境
  • 适得其反的政策(或措施)
  • 不合理的、不合逻辑的或无意义的情况
• adj.
  • 进退两难的，左右为难的；无法摆脱困境的
• 变形:

  n.Catch-

• holiday heart syndrome
• matter-of-factness
• gardenesque
• in / at the pit of your stomach
• cliftons
• tannings
• heavy-wall
• fullest
• quick study
• balleting
• one's hand is out
• markednesses
• a slice of life
• cyclophosphamides
• cloacae
• radiation microbiology
• Beverly Hills
• manakin
• scold
• permutation matrix
• marionetted
• sit down to
• fit the bill
• pastoriums
• tiresomely
• grassiness
• heartsores
• do things to
• Odiniidae
• bottleneck
• limiting
• go up to town
• hyperesthetic
• pitchers
• thistles
• conversion routine
• sweat blood
• mantically
• american sables
• fork sth ↔ over
• emergency stopping
• didymospores
• nympholeptic
• climbed或 clomb
• metrorrhea
• MK system
• clergywonen
• jetties
• a mine of information (about/on sb/sth)
• a special providence
• diphyletic
• stoicheiology
• excipient
• vigorish
• track homing
• postulating
• Euryapsida
• logotherapy
• kharakteristika
• air-aspirator valve
• lancet arch
• U stage
• unhealthfulnesses
• equal
• thesaurismosis
• dovetailling
• nesslerising
• (go) jump in a lake!
• be an indictment of sth
• fadable
• bounded growth
• semiseriousness
• Cary
• splash cymbals
• capsules
• eolian anemometer
• weatherable
• put/set sb's mind at ease/rest
• bulldozed
• empty the baby out with the bath
• two-beam interference
• kaner
• CD-E
• Cracticidae
• eulogistical
• phyllopod
• ucrs
• blistering
• flood tides
• reasons
• almeries
• meiobenthos
• bow window
• seriocomedies
• dead-pay
• dramaturge
• xyphoid
• be neither one thing nor the other
• copernicanisms
• coal seam