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

• 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。
• 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。
• Since the "9.11", after George W.Bush launched two consecutive so-called" war on terror", the United States into a quagmire of war.
  自从“9.11”之后，小布什连续发动了两场所谓的“反恐战争”，把美国拖入到战争的泥潭。
• Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
  践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。
• Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.
  今天，你们陷在你们自己的困境中。
• 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。
• Then the League failed to challenge the fascist assault on Spain, while now the UN takes a step further into the moral quagmire by backing the NATO proxy regime.
  在那时，国际联盟没有对法西斯袭击西班牙做出反抗，而现在，联合国由于支持北约的代理制度打击利比亚而陷入更深的道德泥潭。
• Quagmire ( 2004) Would Iraq War end up like Vietnam, another "quagmire"?
  泥潭（2004）伊拉克战争是否也会陷入越南战争那样的泥潭之中呢？
• 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。
• 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。