quagmire

noun

1. 泥淖；湿地；泥沼
   an area of soft wet ground
2. 困境；险境
   a difficult or dangerous situation

1. N-COUNT (难以避免或摆脱的)复杂局势，困境
   A quagmire is 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。
2. N-COUNT 沼泽地;泥泞地;泥潭
   A quagmire is 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。

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。
3. Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
   大雨使草地变得一片泥泞。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. However, he could find himself stuck in the political quagmire.
   然而，他可能会发现自己受困于政治泥潭、难以作为。
7. 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。
8. Afghanistan: Escaping the Quagmire
   阿富汗：逃离泥潭
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. In short it is the opposite of a quagmire.
    总之与泥潭之说恰恰相反。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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）。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.
    今天，你们陷在你们自己的困境中。
21. 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。
22. Now, experienced hands know it is a quagmire of corporate governance and duties – even in smaller businesses.
    如今，有经验的人知道，这是一个公司治理和责任的泥潭，甚至在较小的企业也是如此。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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？
26. Heavy soils which turn into a quagmire when trodden.
    践踏后变成烂泥的黏重土壤。
27. Since the "9.11", after George W.Bush launched two consecutive so-called" war on terror", the United States into a quagmire of war.
    自从“9.11”之后，小布什连续发动了两场所谓的“反恐战争”，把美国拖入到战争的泥潭。
28. 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。
29. 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。
30. 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。

noun

1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

   Synonym:    mirequagmorassslack