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

• Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
  阿富汗：逃离泥潭
• Being bogged down in stagnancy or recessions, societies are hoping for more productive and more responsive workforces to haul them out of the quagmire.
  深陷停滞或者衰退中，社会需要更有生产率和更适应社会需求的劳动力将它拉出泥潭。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
  我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
• 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。