with so many cars in the streets of a town that the traffic cannot move at all 市区交通大堵塞 gridlocked traffic/roads 拥堵的交通/道路
(of a situation )处境 in which people with different opinions are not able to agree with each other and so no action can be taken 僵局(因意见分歧而无法采取行动) Congress is gridlocked again. 国会再次陷入僵局。 the reason why gridlocked conflicts don't get resolved 僵局冲突得不到解决的原因