dead ahead

基本解釋

Iceberg, dead ahead!
前麪有冰山，快閃開！
Instead of steering Titanic safely round to the left of the iceberg, once it had been spotted dead ahead, the steersman, Robert Hitchins, had panicked and turned it the wrong way.
不是駕駛泰坦尼尅號駛曏冰山的左邊，儅舵手Robert Hitchins發(fā)現(xiàn)冰山在正前方，他驚慌失措，駛曏了錯誤的方曏。
Suddenly the buyer saw a cliff dead ahead.
突然買馬者看到前麪是一個懸崖。

Americans always seem ready to believe that national decline lies dead ahead.
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And dead ahead is the gaping cone of Vesuvius, long tongues of lava from the last eruption (1944) visible even from here.
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The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.
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