stalemate是什么意思？stalemate的意思翻译及词源和例句

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stalemate的读音及音标

英 ['steɪlmeɪt]
美 ['stelmet]

stalemate的意思翻译和解释

n. 僵局；陷于困境
vt. 使僵持；使陷入困境
vi. 僵持；陷入僵局

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1. So etymologically, when you reach stalemate in chess, you have to 'stand' or 'halt' where you are, going neither forward nor back.
2. stale + checkmate => stalemate.
3. in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate".

stalemate 僵局

来自古义 stale,固定的，僵持的，mate,杀，将军，词源同 checkmate.引申比喻义僵局。

stalemate: stalemate: [18] Stalemate is a compound noun, based on the now obsolete stale ‘stalemate’. And this in turn was probably borrowed from Anglo- Norman estale ‘fixed position’, a derivative of Old French estaler ‘halt’, which also underlies English stale and stall. So etymologically, when you reach stalemate in chess, you have to ‘stand’ or ‘halt’ where you are, going neither forward nor back.
stalemate (n.): 1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885. As a verb from 1765; figurative from 1861.