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。 - The wrong direction out of this quagmire would be for regulators to tell agencies how to rate a credit ( and then to use these ratings to regulate banks in a dangerous circularity).
走出这个困境的错误方向，是让监管机构告诉评级机构如何对信用进行评级（然后通过危险的循环方式用这些评级去监管银行）。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Over the months those analysts have reminded us of their views, calling Libya a quagmire.
过去几个月来，这些分析人士让我们想起了他们的观点：他们将利比亚称为一个泥潭。 - Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.
今天，你们陷在你们自己的困境中。 - In short it is the opposite of a quagmire.
总之与泥潭之说恰恰相反。