1. I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. 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。
2. People often recommend physical separation from creative impasses by taking a break, but psychological distance can be just as useful. 但创造性思维陷入僵局时，人们往往建议采取以一种停顿休整的方式使躯体与之分离，但心理距离也会同样有用。
3. One way of avoiding these impasses is to move beyond the Modern Movement critics and to consider design within the context of social life. 避开这些困难的一种方法就是忽略现代运动的批评家（的看法），并且将设计放在社会生活的范围内加以考虑。
4. In a love relationship there are times of boredom, times when I may feel like giving up, times of real strain, and times I experience an impasses. 在相爱的过程中，肯定会出现厌烦的时候、想放弃的时候、十分紧张的是，亦有我感到无望的时候。
