mire
英 [ˈmaɪə(r)]
美 [ˈmaɪər]
n. 泥潭; 泥沼
v. (使)陷于泥泞; (使)陷入困境
复数:mires 过去分词:mired 过去式:mired 现在分词:miring 第三人称单数:mires
BNC.19852 / COCA.13062
牛津词典
noun
- 泥潭;泥沼
an area of deep mud- The wheels sank deeper into the mire.
轮子在泥潭中陷得更深了。 - My name had been dragged through the mire (= my reputation was ruined) .
我的名声受到了玷污。 - The government was sinking deeper and deeper into the mire (= getting further into a difficult situation) .
政府在泥潭中越陷越深。
- The wheels sank deeper into the mire.
柯林斯词典
- N-SING 泥潭;困境;艰难处境
You can refer to an unpleasant or difficult situation as amireof some kind.- ...a mire of poverty and ignorance.
贫穷与无知的泥潭
- ...a mire of poverty and ignorance.
- N-UNCOUNT 灰尘;烂泥;污泥
Mireis dirt or mud.- ...the muck and mire of sewers and farm- yards.
下水道和农家庭院的污垢和烂泥
- ...the muck and mire of sewers and farm- yards.
英英释义
noun
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
- the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president
- caught in the mire of poverty
- deep soft mud in water or slush
- they waded through the slop
verb
- soil with mud, muck, or mire
- The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
- be unable to move further
- The car bogged down in the sand
- cause to get stuck as if in a mire
- The mud mired our cart
- entrap
- Our people should not be mired in the past
双语例句
- I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
我到了深水中。大水漫过我身。 - Having risen from the mire of swamps and marshes, the Orcish hordes have swept across this domain in the fulfillment of that destiny.
从沼泽和湿地中崛起,兽人部落横扫这片领土以实现这个命运。 - You can take part in competitions for the best jumps in mire.
你可以参加竞赛对最好的跳跃在淤泥。 - And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
他们用绳子将耶利米系下去。牢狱里没有水,只有淤泥,耶利米就陷在淤泥中。 - At one time, had smooth sailing in his studies on the fell, Xian into the mire!
一度,一帆风顺得他在自己的学业上跌倒了,陥进了泥潭! - But arrived the Yangshuo moon village, you would put on mire toward the body willingly.
可是到了阳朔月亮村,你就会心甘情愿地往身上抹泥了。 - The civil war is a mire which Western leaders are understandably reluctant to be drawn into.
这场内战是一个泥潭,西方领导人可以理解小愿被卷入。 - My name had been dragged through the mire.
我的名声受到了玷污。 - They have dragged the planet deeper into the mire of militarism, tension, and war.
他们把这个星球更深地拉入黩武、对抗和战争的泥淖之中。 - But later on Beaucock had fallen into the mire.
但是后来,比奥库克陷入了困境。