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
• 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

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  Synonym:mirequagmorassslack

双语例句

• Since the "9.11", after George W.Bush launched two consecutive so-called" war on terror", the United States into a quagmire of war.
  自从“9.11”之后，小布什连续发动了两场所谓的“反恐战争”，把美国拖入到战争的泥潭。
• Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
  大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
• In short it is the opposite of a quagmire.
  总之与泥潭之说恰恰相反。
• 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。
• Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
  冉阿让走上这平坦的斜坡，就走到了泥沼的另一边。
• Today, the spread of the global financial crisis has been even more fatal blow to the British economy once glorious British Empire is no longer out of the recession, quagmire.
  如今蔓延全球的金融危机更令英国经济遭致命打击，一度辉煌的大英帝国已无法走出衰退泥沼。
• Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
  践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。
• Some economists are concerned that Russia is now stuck in the quagmire of stagflation, or high inflation and low growth.
  一些经济学家担心，俄罗斯可能陷入了滞胀的泥潭，高通胀与低增长并存。
• Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
  阿富汗：逃离泥潭
• 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）。