Chris has talked about pandas being an evolutionary cul-de-sac, and it's certainly unusual for a carnivore to take up herbivory.

克里斯曾经说熊猫是进化的尽头，而对于食肉动物来说，摄取食草动物是很不寻常的。

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Unfortunately for investors, H-P looks to be in a strategic cul-de-sac from which there may be no exit.

对投资者来说，不幸的是惠普看起来处于一个可能没有出路的战略死胡同。

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It's like saying the blue whale is in an evolutional cul-de-sac because it lives in the ocean.

(派克汉姆的言论)就好比说蓝鲸钻进了进化死胡同，因为它们生活在海洋。

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Let's just say that you have a child who lives up here, say in this cul-de-sac, and is friends with a child who lives over here.

假设有你有一个孩子住在这儿,在这条死胡同里,他有个朋友住在这

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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Can we finally map the brain down to its smallest cul de sac?

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