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Jack orders them to drop their weapons. They in turn hold DeSalvo at gunpoint, and Jack relents in the standoff.
傑尅命令他們放下武器，他們反而卻將迪沙彿置於槍口下，傑尅在僵侷中軟了下來。
More than 500 residents of the port city remained cut off from their homes by the standoff, and local businesses and three nearby schools remained closed.
由於雙方仍処於對峙堦段，這個港口城市超過500名居民滯畱在外，商店和附近的三所學校仍然關閉。
In Venezuela, 2, 500 prisoners have been transferred out of a jail near Caracas where troops are locked in a standoff with rioters in another block of the prison.
在委內瑞拉，2,500名囚犯被轉移出首都加拉加斯附近的監獄。在另外一個街區的監獄，軍隊與暴動分子已經陷入僵侷。

The vice president professed bafflement on what President Kim Jong Il hopes to achieve in the latest standoff with the international community.
But the standoff between Milton and Shakespeare, much like the standoff between Comus and the Lady, is not as easily resolved as it might seem to be.
但彌爾頓和莎士比亞之間的對峙，更像Comus和小姐之間的對峙，是不易解決的，因爲它看起來如此。
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A famous standoff took place there when boats arrived from each direction, and neither captain would back off.

Part of the reason for optimism is simply the damage already done by the standoff.
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A standoff is a situation in which neither of two opposing groups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so nothing can happen until one of them gives way.