quagmire
英 [ˈkwæɡmaɪə(r)]
美 [ˈkwæɡmaɪər]
n. 泥淖; 湿地; 泥沼; 困境; 险境
复数：quagmires
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.- 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。 - We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
- His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion...
- 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.- Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
- Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- 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。 - However, he could find himself stuck in the political quagmire.
然而，他可能会发现自己受困于政治泥潭、难以作为。 - 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。 - 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）。 - Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。 - Judging by the 1930s, the deficit countries may emerge more quickly from the quagmire.
根据上世纪30年代的情况判断，赤字国家或许能更快从困境中复苏。 - 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。 - Or, more accurately, there is a policy quagmire that is growing more intractable.
或更准确地说，这是个越来越难以应对的政策泥潭。 - 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。 - 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。