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be locked in something
phrasal verb with lockverbuk /lɒk/ us /lɑːk/
to be prevented from moving by something: 被…困住，受到…阻碍
We were locked in traffic for over two hours on the way home.回家的路上我们因堵车被困了两个多小时。
If you are locked in a situation or process, it is impossible for you to escape or make progress from it: 陷入…而停滞不前
Both parties wish to avoid being locked in discussions that will resolve nothing.双方都希望能避免陷入毫无意义的讨论而停滞不前。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Immobility
anti-jamming
boxed in
budge
cataleptic
catatonia
frozen
jam
jammed
lifelessly
lock
motionless
motionlessly
moveless
pin
standing
statically
stationary
stock-still
time stands stillidiom
transfixed
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