Promising startups reach a certain stage of maturity only to hit a brick wall in terms of funding.

有前途的初创公司达到了一定的成熟阶段，却在融资方面碰壁。

Picture it like a tidal wave, a huge wave suddenly stopping and hitting a brick wall.

把它想象成潮汐波， 巨大的波浪突然停止并撞击砖墙。

The development of new drug therapies for mental health disorders has hit a brick wall, with scarcely any real progress since the 1950s.

精神疾病新药疗法的开发遇到了瓶颈，自 1950 年代以来几乎没有任何实质性进展。

You feel like any time you go and write that song, that script, you go and make something, you hit a brick wall.

你觉得任何时候你去写那首歌， 那个剧本，你去做一些事情， 你都会碰壁。

John Polidori got right to work on the tale of a seductive aristocratic vampire that was essentially an extended satire on Byron himself, but Mary Shelley had hit a brick wall.

约翰·波利多里立即着手写了一个关于迷人的贵族吸血鬼的故事，这实际上是对拜伦本人的延伸讽刺，但玛丽·雪莱却碰壁了。