standoff

常见例句

Jack orders them to drop their weapons. They in turn hold DeSalvo at gunpoint, and Jack relents in the standoff.
杰克命令他们放下武器，他们反而却将迪沙佛置于枪口下，杰克在僵局中软了下来。
More than 500 residents of the port city remained cut off from their homes by the standoff, and local businesses and three nearby schools remained closed.
由于双方仍处于对峙阶段，这个港口城市超过500名居民滞留在外，商店和附近的三所学校仍然关闭。
In Venezuela, 2, 500 prisoners have been transferred out of a jail near Caracas where troops are locked in a standoff with rioters in another block of the prison.
在委内瑞拉，2,500名囚犯被转移出首都加拉加斯附近的监狱。在另外一个街区的监狱，军队与暴动分子已经陷入僵局。

The vice president professed bafflement on what President Kim Jong Il hopes to achieve in the latest standoff with the international community.
But the standoff between Milton and Shakespeare, much like the standoff between Comus and the Lady, is not as easily resolved as it might seem to be.
但弥尔顿和莎士比亚之间的对峙，更像Comus和小姐之间的对峙，是不易解决的，因为它看起来如此。
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A famous standoff took place there when boats arrived from each direction, and neither captain would back off.

Part of the reason for optimism is simply the damage already done by the standoff.
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Every statehouse and public employee union in the nation should be watching the standoff in Wisconsin.
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This could be a way to help resolve this expected standoff with the union over revenues.
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