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

• 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。
• 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。
• Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
  践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。
• 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。
• Some economists are warning that other Asian nations should stop counting on intervention from Beijing to lift the region out of its economic quagmire.
  一些经济学家警告，其它亚洲国家不应再指望北京的干预措施将带领整个地区走出经济泥潭。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。