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quagmire

英 [ˈkwæɡmaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈkwæɡmaɪər]

n.  泥淖; 湿地; 泥沼; 困境; 险境

复数:quagmires 

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.22373 / COCA.16401

牛津词典

    noun

    • 泥淖;湿地;泥沼
      an area of soft wet ground
      1. 困境;险境
        a difficult or dangerous situation

        柯林斯词典

        • N-COUNT (难以避免或摆脱的)复杂局势,困境
          Aquagmireis a difficult, complicated, or unpleasant situation which is not easy to avoid or escape from.
          1. His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion...
            他的人民在混乱不安的泥潭里越陷越深。
          2. We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
            我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
        • N-COUNT 沼泽地;泥泞地;泥潭
          Aquagmireis a soft, wet area of land which your feet sink into if you try to walk across it.
          1. Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
            大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。

        英英释义

        noun

        双语例句

        • Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
          大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
        • Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
          阿富汗:逃离泥潭
        • By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire.
          由于践踏得多了,我们把盐泽的边沿弄成一个泥沼了。
        • That is why we should not have fallen into the quagmire in the first place.
          所以我们首先就不能陷入泥潭。
        • 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。
        • The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair.
          最重要的是通过这种沮丧和绝望的泥潭中艰难的努力。
        • His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion
          他的人民在混乱不安的泥潭里越陷越深。
        • And deciding whether to turn down requests for facebook "friends" is a social quagmire in itself.
          而决定是否拒绝facebook上的“好友”请求,本身就是一个社交困境。
        • The wrong direction out of this quagmire would be for regulators to tell agencies how to rate a credit ( and then to use these ratings to regulate banks in a dangerous circularity).
          走出这个困境的错误方向,是让监管机构告诉评级机构如何对信用进行评级(然后通过危险的循环方式用这些评级去监管银行)。
        • Over the months those analysts have reminded us of their views, calling Libya a quagmire.
          过去几个月来,这些分析人士让我们想起了他们的观点:他们将利比亚称为一个泥潭。