pretty pass

基本解释

One is high school literature teaching pretty pass.
一是高中文学教学的尴尬。
Events have come to a pretty pass when a King must cower in his castle. But cover I must.
城堡里的大事，国王已经不是必须躲在里面了，但我必须藏起来。
Generally, there are two goals in this subject: one is to escape from the pretty pass of the application of medial axis of polygon in GIS;
总之本课题的目的有两个：一，走出GIS领域的多边形中轴应用误区，这是一个科学问题；

But this is also true of all of Western Europe, which has to do pretty much with the abolition of farmers and I just don't think it's right for me to pass without mentioning the significance.
西欧的情况亦如此,这与农奴制的废除有很大关系,我个人觉得如果不提一下其重要性,那是我的失职
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Something which, if true, might explain some of the pretty pass we find ourselves in at present.
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The IMF has brought this pretty pass on itself.
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