quagmire
英 ['kwægmaɪə; 'kwɒg-]
美
- n. 沼泽，沼泽地；无法脱身的困境
词态变化
复数: quagmires;
中文词源
quagmire 泥沼
quag,泥沼，mire,沼泽。两个单词实质上表达的是一个意思，比较lukewarm.
英英释意
- 1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
英文词源
- 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).
实用场景例句
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
- 我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
- 大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- My wellingtons got stuck in a quagmire.
- 我的威灵顿长靴陷在泥坑里.
《简明英汉词典》
- Moreover, numerous agencies have the power to monitor and block shipments, creating a bureaucratic quagmire.
- 另外, 有很多机构具有监视货物及退货的权力, 造成了官僚主义泛滥.
期刊摘选
- He who tries to conceal his fault for fear of criticism will sink deeper and deeper in the quagmire of errors.
- 讳疾忌医的人,错误越陷越深.
《简明英汉词典》
- They despaired stuck in the eternal quagmire.
- 他们绝望地堕入永恒的困境之中.
期刊摘选
- 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.
英汉非文学 - 民俗
- The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.
- 大雨滂沱,球场变成了泥沼.
期刊摘选
- After the rain, the football pitch is a real quagmire.
- 下雨后, 足球场变成一片沼泽.
期刊摘选
- I ensconced in the quagmire of life to find time for simple pleasures anymore.
- 我身陷生活的泥沼,再也没有工夫追求简单的快乐了.
期刊摘选
- These talks, which began in 2001, long ago a quagmire.
- 这些说辞, 从2001年开始, 很早就陷入了泥潭.
期刊摘选
- I fell into a self, full of innocence a quagmire.
- 我陷入了自我, 陷入了满是纯真的泥沼.
期刊摘选
- Afghanistan: Can the U.S. Avoid a Quagmire?
- 阿富汗: 美国是否能避免泥潭?
期刊摘选
- 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 ”.
期刊摘选
- Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.
- 今天你们作茧自缚.
期刊摘选
- Another potential quagmire is foreign policy.
- 另一个潜在的困境是外交政策.
期刊摘选
- Here standard setters'quest for intellectual consistency will run into a political quagmire.
- 会计准则的制定者们对公允价值一致性的追求陷入了管理层无限纠缠的沼泽地.
期刊摘选
- Napoleon also inadvertently fall the quagmire of time, have been made allthe mud, mood.
- 拿破仑也因一时不慎掉入泥潭中, 被弄得满身泥巴, 狼狈不堪.
期刊摘选
- The market rose in after abnormal decline, the more prices fall more into a quagmire.
- 市场在暴涨之后出现很不正常的下降, 房价越降越陷入泥潭.
期刊摘选
- Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
- 大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
辞典例句
- 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。
柯林斯例句
- We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
- 我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
柯林斯例句