break the deadlock

基本解释

They broke the deadlock when Wayne Rooney slipped in Ryan Giggs to slot home and Rooney doubled the advantage by firing in a Javier Hernandez pass.
正是魯尼的助攻使得吉格斯破門得分，進而打破了長久以來的僵侷，隨後，他接赫爾南德斯的傳球後親自操刀，又進一步的擴大了優勢。
Berbatov broke the deadlock before being substituted along with Rooney, and Sir Alex confirmed that the Bulgarian had suffered a recurrence of his troublesome knee injury.
貝巴在和魯尼一起被換下之前打開僵侷，弗格森爵士確認保加利亞人的膝蓋有傷。
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After we broke the deadlock, we were then able to make the most of the extra space.
在我們打破僵侷後，我們隨即充分利用了更大的空間。

That not only broke the deadlock, says Nunez, but also got strong buy-in from the executives.
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