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| Another expression for having no real choice is between a rock and a hard place. |
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另一个表示别无选择的短语是between a rock and a hard place（进退两难）。 |
| It is often used to describe a difficult situation with few choices, none of them good. |
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它常用于形容一种选择面小，且没什么好选择的困难局面。 |
| For example, your boss may ask you to work late. |
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例如，你的老板要求你加班到很晚。 |
| But you have plans to go to a movie with your friends. |
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但你已经计划好和朋友们一起去看电影。 |
| If you refuse to work, your boss gets angry. |
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如果你拒绝加班，老板会生气。 |
| But if you do not go to the movies with your friends, they may get angry. |
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而如果你不去看电影，朋友们又会生气。 |
| So what do you do? |
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这时你该怎么办呢？ |
| You are caught between a rock and a hard place. |
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你陷入了进退两难。 |
| Another expression, between the devil and the deep blue sea, |
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另一短语，between the devil and the deep blue sea（进退维谷）， |
| also gives you a choice between two equally dangerous things. |
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表示在两个同样危险的事情之间做出选择。 |
| Its meaning seems clear. |
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这个短语的含义显而易见。 |
| You can choose the devil and his burning fires of hell. |
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你可以选择恶魔和他燃烧着熊熊大火的地狱。 |
| Or, you can choose to drown in the sea. |
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或选择淹死在海里。 |
| Some word experts say the expression comes from the days of wooden ships. |
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一些词汇专家称，这句话出自木船时代。 |
| The devil is a word for a seam between two pieces of wood along the water-line of a ship. |
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这个短语中，魔鬼这个词是指沿着船的吃水线的两块木板的接缝处。 |
| If the seam or crack between the two pieces of wood begins to leak, |
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如果这个接缝或裂缝开始漏水， |
| then a sailor must fix it. |
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水手必须修好它。 |
| The sailor ordered to make the repairs was in a dangerous situation. |
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被命令去修理接缝的水手处于一种危险境地。 |
| He was hanging over the side of the ship, working between the devil and the deep blue sea. |
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他被吊在船的外侧，在接缝处和大海之间工作。 |
| There is still another expression that describes a situation with only bad choices, |
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还有一个语句形容一种只有不好选择的状况。 |
| being on the horns of a dilemma. |
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左右为难 |
| The dictionary says a dilemma is a situation in which you must make a decision about two equally balanced choices. |
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词典解释说，“Dilemma”是指必须就两个均衡选项做出选择的情况。 |
| When your dilemma has horns,a choice becomes impossible. |
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一旦它“长出尖角”，选择就变得不再可能。 |
| When you are on the horns of a dilemma, no matter which horn you choose,something bad will happen. |
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当你身处左右为难的境地，不管你怎么选择，都将有坏事情发生。 |
