We just seem to be going in circles and constantly hitting one brick wall after another.

我们似乎只是在原地打转，不断地碰壁。

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。

Then gradually its white brick walls grew more distinct.

然后它的白色砖墙逐渐变得更加清晰。

It's like seeing a brick wall and reasoning: “It's too hard to just run through and too tall to climb.”

这就像看到一堵砖墙，然后推理：“跑过去太难了，爬上去又太高了。”

And what happens if you build a brick wall too high without mortar?

如果您在没有砂浆的情况下将砖墙砌得太高会怎样？

They went along a little walk on planks, under a sunny, red brick wall.

他们在阳光明媚的红砖墙下沿着木板走了一小段路。

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 Baudelaires escape the cell by breaking the brick wall and figure out that the Quagmires are in the Fowl Fountain by deciphering the poems.

波德莱尔家的孩子们打破砖墙逃离牢房，并通过破译诗歌发现夸米尔一家在家禽喷泉里。

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。

When I got out of school and started to hit—I hit the brick wall that you can't do any of that. It doesn't exist. You can't do it.

当我离开学校，开始去突破——我推翻这其中的壁垒砖墙，但你不能做任何事。它不存在。你不能这么做。

This is very powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with, to understand their thoughts, feelings and motives instead of you being a brick wall saying conform to me.

这十分强大，因为它可以给你精确的数据，去理解他们的想法、情感还有动机，而不是你作为一道砖墙然后说，来遵循我吧。

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。