quagmire
n. 沼泽，沼泽地；无法脱身的困境
n.
沼泽地；泥潭；无法脱身的困境；
变形
复数：quagmires
英英释义
quagmire[ 'kwæɡmaiə, 'kwɔ- ]
n.a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
同义词：mirequagmorassslack
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.
大雨滂沱
I hope we can quickly get out of the quagmire.
我希望我们能够快点走出这个困境。
权威例句
The Rodent Quarantine QuagmireOut of the quagmire of plant defense hypotheses.
The World-Wide Web: quagmire or gold mine?
A pharmacological approach to the quagmire of comorbidity in juvenile mania
Has Regionalism Peaked? The Latin American Quagmire and its Lessons
Efficient Rent-Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire
Efficient Rent-Seeking: Chronicle of an Intellectual Quagmire
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quagmire
quagmire: [16] The now virtually defunct word quag denoted a ‘marsh’, particularly one with a top layer of turf that moved when you trod on it. Combination with mire (which also originally meant ‘marsh’, and is related to English moss) produced quagmire. It is not known where quag came from, but its underlying meaning is generally taken to be ‘shake, tremble’, and it may ultimately be of imitative origin.
quagmire (n.)
1570s, "bog, marsh," from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire (n.). Early spellings include quamyre (1550s), quabmire (1590s), quadmire (c. 1600). Extended sense of "difficult situation, inescapable bad position" is recorded by 1766; but this seems to have been not in common use in much of 19c. (absent in "Century Dictionary," 1902), but revived in a narrower sense in reference to military invasions in American English, 1965, with reference to Vietnam (popularized in the book title "The Making of a Quagmire" by David Halberstam).
1. Some comrades say that in the struggle against Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, more political cadres were duped -- or even "trapped in the quagmire" -- than others.
有同志反映：在同林彪、“四人帮”的斗争中，政治干部上当受骗甚至陷进去的，从数量上说，比其他干部多。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
2. be in a quagmire of debt
陷入负债累累的困境
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. On their way was a quagmire which was difficult to get over.
路上他俩遇到了—个泥坑，很难过得去。
-- 来源 -- 英汉非文学 - 民俗 - minsu_xunhuhanfu
4. In Washington, debate is transfixed on the report expected next week from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee promising sagacious advice on how America can best extract itself from the quagmire( see article).
华盛顿则从争论不休转而关注下周由伊拉克问题研究小组即将出台的一份报告。
-- 来源 -- ecocn.org
5. William James called this view a "quagmire of evasion."
威廉·詹姆士将这一观点称为“推诿的泥潭”。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
6. Now, all this is a quagmire of evasion under which the real issue of fact has been entirely smothered ...
现在，所有这一切都是推诿的泥潭，真正的事实被完全窒息在它的下面……
-- 来源 -- 哲学部分 - juedinglundeliangnan
7. The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.
大雨滂沱, 球场变成了泥沼.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
8. First worry: the Chinese people would oppose it, and the U.S. government was afraid of getting hopelessly bogged down in a quagmire.
第一顾虑中国人民反对它，它怕陷在泥潭里拔不出去。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
9. A boggy area;a quagmire.
沼泽地；泥潭
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
10. During its first term, the Bush administration suffered setbacks by carrying out hardline policies of unilateralism in the Middle East, and sank in the quagmire of Iraq and felt difficult to get out of it.
布什政府第一任期内,在中东推行单边主义强硬政策多方受挫,在伊拉克更陷于泥潭而难以自拔。
-- 来源 -- 网友提供
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