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
- 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。 - Some economists are concerned that Russia is now stuck in the quagmire of stagflation, or high inflation and low growth.
一些经济学家担心，俄罗斯可能陷入了滞胀的泥潭，高通胀与低增长并存。 - 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。 - The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair.
最重要的是通过这种沮丧和绝望的泥潭中艰难的努力。 - 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。 - Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。 - In short it is the opposite of a quagmire.
总之与泥潭之说恰恰相反。 - 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。 - 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）。 - 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。