Impasse的意思是僵局,The United States has imposed sanctions on two North Korean-controlled IT companies amid an impasse between the two countries over the pace of North Korea's dismantling of its nuclear weapons program,在美國和朝鮮就其解除核武計劃的速度問題上陷入僵局之際,美國對兩家朝鮮控制的信息技術公司實施了制裁。
Diplomatic impasses in the Horn of Africa continue to be resolved with the announcement recently that Eritrea and Djibouti will normalize relations, 隨著厄立特里亞和吉布提最近宣布雙方關系將正?;侵拗堑貐^(qū)仍在努力解決外交僵局。