quagmires
英 [ˈkwægmaɪəz]
美 [ˈkwægˌmaɪərz]
n. 泥淖; 湿地; 泥沼; 困境; 险境
quagmire的复数
柯林斯词典
- 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.- 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
A quagmire is 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.
双语例句
- There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes.
有稀粘土，有活水泉，有坚石，有软而深的淤泥？科学的专门名词称之为芥末。 - Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires.
拥有结构性嗅觉的程序员避开了这片沼泽。 - To the psychotic one in the relationship, all spats/ tiffs/ quagmires are stripped of their hierarchical value and laid side-by-side on an even plane of Things Worth Fighting For.
但对于男女关系神经质的一方来说，任何的小吵、拌嘴和僵持都没有重要性的差别，它们都一样的重要，一个个都是值得“斗争”的问题。 - This is really just a corollary, but the willingness to act first instead of asking permission sometimes helps me avoid other people's political quagmires.
事后道歉真地只是一个直接后果，可是，愿意先斩后奏有时候帮助我避开了人们的政治泥潭。