quagmire 是什么意思
n. 沼泽,沼泽地;无法脱身的困境
quagmire 中文词源
quagmire 泥沼
quag,泥沼,mire,沼泽。两个单词实质上表达的是一个意思,比较lukewarm.
英语词源
quagmirequagmire: [16] The now virtually defunct word quag denoted a ‘marsh’, particularly one with a top layer of turf that moved when you trod on it. Combination with mire (which also originally meant ‘marsh’, and is
quagmire 权威例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.
- 我们无意卷入一场政治困境。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. My wellingtons got stuck in a quagmire.
- 我的威灵顿长靴陷在泥坑里.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He who tries to conceal his fault for fear of criticism will sink deeper and deeper in the quagmire of errors.
- 讳疾忌医的人,错误越陷越深.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. 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.
来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
quagmire 造句
- 1. Some comrades say that in the struggle against Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, more political cadres were duped -- or even "trapped in the quagmire" -- than others.
- 有同志反映:在同林彪、“四人帮”的斗争中,政治干部上当受骗甚至陷进去的,从数量上说,比其他干部多。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
- 2. be in a quagmire of debt
- 陷入负债累累的困境
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 3. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉非文学 - 民俗 - minsu_xunhuhanfu
- 4. In Washington, debate is transfixed on the report expected next week from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee promising sagacious advice on how America can best extract itself from the quagmire( see article).
- 华盛顿则从争论不休转而关注下周由伊拉克问题研究小组即将出台的一份报告。
-- 来源 -- ecocn.org
- 5. William James called this view a "quagmire of evasion."
- 威廉·詹姆士将这一观点称为“推诿的泥潭”。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
- 6. Now, all this is a quagmire of evasion under which the real issue of fact has been entirely smothered ...
- 现在,所有这一切都是推诿的泥潭,真正的事实被完全窒息在它的下面……
-- 来源 -- 哲学部分 - juedinglundeliangnan
- 7. The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.
- 大雨滂沱, 球场变成了泥沼.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
- 8. First worry: the Chinese people would oppose it, and the U.S. government was afraid of getting hopelessly bogged down in a quagmire.
- 第一顾虑中国人民反对它,它怕陷在泥潭里拔不出去。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
- 9. A boggy area;a quagmire.
- 沼泽地;泥潭
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
- 10. During its first term, the Bush administration suffered setbacks by carrying out hardline policies of unilateralism in the Middle East, and sank in the quagmire of Iraq and felt difficult to get out of it.
- 布什政府第一任期内,在中东推行单边主义强硬政策多方受挫,在伊拉克更陷于泥潭而难以自拔。
-- 来源 -- 网友提供