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
- Today, the spread of the global financial crisis has been even more fatal blow to the British economy once glorious British Empire is no longer out of the recession, quagmire.
如今蔓延全球的金融危机更令英国经济遭致命打击，一度辉煌的大英帝国已无法走出衰退泥沼。 - 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。 - Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。 - Now, experienced hands know it is a quagmire of corporate governance and duties – even in smaller businesses.
如今，有经验的人知道，这是一个公司治理和责任的泥潭，甚至在较小的企业也是如此。 - Arriving in China in early March, Stilwell found himself in a military and political quagmire.
在三月抵达中国以后，是地位很快发现他处在一个军事和政治的困局之中。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。