英美人天天都在说的4000句 16:back to square one

　　[00:04]P：Oh, hey, Joey!
[00:05]J：Hey!
[00:05]P：What's up?
[00:07]J：I can't decide which route¹ to take to Vegas.
[00:10]Hey, you've traveled a lot, right?
[00:12]P：Yeah, I've been around.
[00:13]J：OK, so, so which route should I take, the northern route or the southern route?
[00:17]P：Oh, if you take the northern route, there's a man in Illinois with a beard of bees.
[00:23]J：Great! Problem solved!
[00:26]P：But on the southern route there's a chicken that plays tic-tac-toe.
[00:31]J：Well, back to square one.

1 route   

n.路径，途径，路线；vt.确定路线，按规定路线发送

参考例句：

• On the way home, we took an indirect route.回家的路上，我们绕了一个大圈。
• The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.飞机没有沿通常的商业航线飞。