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
- We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
我们无意卷入一场政治困境。 - Your ideal scene serves as a map that can guide you through the quagmire of options.
你理想的场景就像是地图一样让你走出困住你的现实的沼泽地。 - 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。 - Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。 - 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。 - However, he could find himself stuck in the political quagmire.
然而，他可能会发现自己受困于政治泥潭、难以作为。 - 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。 - This could culminate in defensive US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a deepening quagmire eventually encompassing Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
这一切可能会在美国对伊朗的防御性军事行动中达到高潮，使单打独斗的美国陷入一个越来越深的沼泽，最终被伊拉克、伊朗、阿富汗和巴基斯坦所包围。 - Judging by the 1930s, the deficit countries may emerge more quickly from the quagmire.
根据上世纪30年代的情况判断，赤字国家或许能更快从困境中复苏。