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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• We wish him all the best in bringing America out of the present financial quagmire as soon as possible, and [ to] re-energize the world's largest economy with his brand new ideas and vision.
  我们希望他能够带领美国人民尽快走出时下金融危机的泥沼，用他全新的思想和眼界振兴这个世界最大的经济体。
• Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
  阿富汗：逃离泥潭
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
  大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
• Being bogged down in stagnancy or recessions, societies are hoping for more productive and more responsive workforces to haul them out of the quagmire.
  深陷停滞或者衰退中，社会需要更有生产率和更适应社会需求的劳动力将它拉出泥潭。