catch-22

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Here’s the catch-22: the more stressed you get, the more you crave coffee and doughnuts, pizza and Coke.
追赶22：压力越大，您越渴望食用咖啡和甜甜圈，比萨和可乐。
Another possibility is that we are stuck in an evolutionary Catch-22 where, as the appendix shrinks, appendicitis becomes more likely, favouring its retention.
另一种可能是我们处于一种进化的第22条军规困境，随着盲肠的萎缩，阑尾炎的发病率会更高，所以盲肠就保留了下来。
The countdown to flyingthe 30 missions that will complete his service to the crown recollects the samecountdown in Joseph Heller's “Catch-22”: a race between luck and doom.
再完成30次飞行任务，他就可以圆满退役，这让人想起约瑟夫·海勒的《第二十二条军规》：一场好运和厄运的赛跑。

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an impossible situation where you are prevented from doing one thing until you have done another thing that you cannot do until you have done the first thing

If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.