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

• 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？
• Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
  践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
  阿富汗：逃离泥潭