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quicksand

英 ['kwɪksænd] 美['kwɪksænd]

英英释义实用场景例句

n. [水利] 流沙，危险状态

TEM8畅通词汇

词态变化

复数: quicksands;

中文词源

quicksand 流沙，困境

来自quick,活的，sand,沙子。比喻用法，引申词义困境。

英英释意

1. a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

2. a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

英文词源

quicksand (n.): c. 1300, from Middle English quyk "living" (see quick (adj.)) + sond "sand" (see sand (n.)). Old English had cwecesund, but this might have meant "lively strait of water."

实用场景例句

The sandbank was uncertain, like quicksand under his feet.: 那个沙坝并不稳固，他脚下如同踩着流沙一般。

I was about to sink into the quicksand of sin...: 我就要陷入罪孽的深渊了。

The research seemed founded on quicksand.: 这项研究犹如建在流沙之上，基础极不稳固。

It was actually quicksand , which is a deep mass of fine sand mixed with water.: 它其实是流沙, 流沙是很深很多的和水混合在一起的沙子.

Regulus legends of our ancestors was the Yellow Emperor, " for quicksand, Tang in the Kunlun Mountains. ": 传说我们的老祖宗轩辕黄帝就曾经, “ 涉流沙, 登于昆仑 ”

Conceit is the quicksand of success.: 自负是成功的流沙.

Knowledge is the bedrock of experience, knowledge and experience not only built on the quicksand.: 知识是经验的磐石, 没有知识的经验只是建筑在流沙上.

Nobody plucks you out of the quicksand.: 没有人会把你从流沙里拉出来.

Improper precipation may cause quicksand and result in foundation pit unsteadiness.: 由于降水不慎,可能产生流砂,导致基坑失稳.

Sand under quick condition is often called quicksand.: 通常把快速流动的沙叫做流砂.

I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature.: 流沙对世人保守的秘密给我拆穿了.

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand.: 爱情是怎么回事, 啊, 有点像流沙.

There's a lot of polk salad and quicksand and other things.: 这路上有许多像灌木和流沙那样的东西.

The sandbank was uncertain, like quicksand under his feet.: 那个沙坝并不稳固，他脚下如同踩着流沙一般。

The research seemed founded on quicksand.: 这项研究犹如建在流沙之上，基础极不稳固。

I was about to sink into the quicksand of sin.: 我就要陷入罪孽的深渊了。