汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 进退两难
进退两难 (進退兩難)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
It is difficult to move forward and backward / It is a metaphor that things cannot be decided, so it is difficult to act
进退都不好,形容处境困难。
() jìn 退 tuì () liǎng () nán/nàn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

这是进退两难的事。

It is between a rock and a hard place.

天呀!我们真是进退两难

Bless my heart! We are in a fix.

我现在进退两难。 ?翯。

We got a real dilemma here, okay?

《磨兽世界》陷入进退两难的窘境。

'World of Warcraft' has been caught in the middle.

正在进退两难的当口,我们帮他们下了决心。

At the moment of indecision, we helped them make up their minds.

我已经痛苦度过了流放的八年,如今真的进退两难

But here was my dilemma. I had been in exile for eight painful years.

恰恰在这个时候老板发现了自己处在进退两难的境地。

It was precisely at this juncture that the boss found himself in a dilemma.

对于仅获得法律承认,却未实现更大战略意图的欧盟而言,真是有苦难言,进退两难

For a union that swears by the rule of law but has big strategic ambitions, that is an unacknowledged dilemma.

眼看问题经纬万端,进退两难、入困境,死路一条,盘根错节的命定可能性,但找不到明显的出路。

I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out.

妇女们处于进退两难的境地:若不结婚生子会被社会边缘化,但要两全其美则压力重重。

Women are caught in a double bind, marginalized in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.