quagmires

美 [ˈkwægˌmaɪərz]英 [ˈkwægmaɪəz]
  • n.困境;泥沼;泥淖;湿地;险境
  • quagmire的复数
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quagmires

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  • 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.

    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
    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。

  1. 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。

  2. 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。

  3. 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。

  4. 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。