a narrow or busy section of road where the traffic often gets slower and stops 瓶颈路段(常引起交通阻塞) He drove around the outside of the town to avoid the bottleneck in the centre. 他开车绕过城外,以避开市中心的瓶颈。 a traffic bottleneck 交通瓶颈 Opponents argue that the traffic lights would cause a bottleneck at the junction. 反对者认为交通灯会在路口造成瓶颈。
anything that delays development or progress, particularly in business or industry (尤指工商业发展的)瓶颈,阻碍,障碍 to create/eliminate bottlenecks in the manufacturing process 创建/消除制造过程中的瓶颈