morass

英 [məˈræs]

美 [məˈræs]

n.  困境; 陷阱; 沼泽

复数：morasses　

GRE

BNC.21135 / COCA.19432

牛津词典

noun

• 困境；陷阱
  an unpleasant and complicated situation that is difficult to escape from
• 沼泽
  a dangerous area of low soft wet land

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 复杂混乱的情况;乱糟糟的一堆;困境
  If you describe an unpleasant or confused situation as amorass, you mean that it seems impossible to escape from or resolve, because it has become so serious or so complicated.
  1. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
     我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
  2. ...the economic morass.
     经济混乱

英英释义

noun

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

双语例句

• This leaves the young son and his uncle, Chang Sung-taek, which is not exactly the dream team to lead the north out of its morass.
  这就剩下了金正恩和他的姑父张成泽（changsung-taek），这可不像是带领国家收拾烂摊子的理想团队。
• I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
  我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
• To help facilitate this goal-oriented philosophy, one technique we're using in Wrath of the Lich King is to build more mission-based instances along the lines of Old Hillsbrad and Black Morass.
  为了帮助促进这个“目标导向”的方针，我们在《巫妖王之怒》中会利用更多的“任务引导”手法，就像“旧希尔斯布莱德丘陵”和“黑暗沼泽”一样。
• Too many people get distracted first thing in the morning with unimportant activities such as diving right into their morass of e-mail, when there may be a whole host of more important issues that need dealing with.
  很多人一大早就会被并不重要的事情而分心，比如查看大量的电子邮件。而此时，可能有一大堆更重要的事情需要处理。
• If the euro were to disappear altogether, the question of how to handle euro-denominated contracts would be a legal morass.
  如果欧元彻底消失，如何处置以欧元计价的合同，将成为一个法律上的泥淖。
• Mona Monroe mourned the moral morass of the monster.
  门罗夫人为这个陷入道德困境的怪物而哀伤。
• To make matters even more complicated, the once-technical issue of leverage has become entangled in a morass of politics and lobbying courtesy of outraged commercial banks.
  让事情愈加复杂的是，杠杠这个曾经的技术问题已经卷入了政治泥沼和愤怒的商业银行礼貌的游说之中。
• A computer-based system of scholarly communication offers the hope of an escape from the insoluble morass of economic, space, and access problems of the last few years.
  在过去几年以电脑为基础的系统学术交流提供了摆脱困境不能解决的经济，空间，存取问题。
• Corporate tax is an ethical morass.
  法人税是个复杂繁乱的职业道德问题。
• Lives may not be at risk here, but given how far out on a limb he had gone in denying any problem ( and now knowledge of the problem) his PR morass is pretty hairy.
  虽说摩根大通的这起事件可能无关性命，但鉴于戴蒙曾经孤注一掷地否认有任何问题（而现在问题已经暴露了），他的公关工作可真是一团糟。