dead ahead

基本解释

Iceberg, dead ahead!
前面有冰山，快闪开！
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.
不是驾驶泰坦尼克号驶向冰山的左边，当舵手Robert Hitchins发现冰山在正前方，他惊慌失措，驶向了错误的方向。
Suddenly the buyer saw a cliff dead ahead.
突然买马者看到前面是一个悬崖。

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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