quagmire

quagmire什么意思,quagmire翻译

基本解释

n.: 泥沼；泥淖；湿地；困境
网络: 沼泽；沼泽地；泥沼地

权威解释

• 泥淖；湿地；泥沼:

  an area of soft wet ground

• 困境；险境:

  a difficult or dangerous situation

英汉解释

• 泥泞地

• 软泥地

• 泥坑

• 泥沼地

• 泥沼土地

• 沼泽地

词性分析

• 复数：quagmires

同义词

n.swampmarshbogmirequicksand

例句

• The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.

  整个发臭的文明世界像一块沼泽地一样处于这个深渊底部，这种犹犹豫豫的微笑像一座海市蜃楼一样在上面飘忽不定地摇曳。

• She wanted to go on like this not to the next smoothly off from nearby vines, stretching from the quagmire of mud stained the ground sway.

  她想这样下去不行，就顺手从附近折下一条藤蔓，伸入泥潭，沾上泥浆向地上挥洒。

• You [America] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.

  你[美国]不能维护你的权力向伊拉克提供了数辆坦克，大炮和武器。如今，你是轮到你自己的事了。

• 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。

• "Vietnam" , synonymous with "quagmire" , is shorthand for an unwinnable war. So it was over the war in Iraq.

  “越南”，这一“沼泽”的同义词，是对一场注定失败的战争的简要表述。

• So, far from being on the brink of another quagmire, Libya is in fact in pole position compared with other countries in the region.

  所以，利比亚非但不会陷入困境，实际上还在该地区的几个国家中占有优势。

• It was the sound of a large number of horses"feet trampling through the quagmire.

  有人声大批马匹的脚踏在泥潭。

• 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。

• Over the next few decades, something"s gotta give -- or else Japan may never escape from its quagmire.

  未来几十年，日本必须有所动作，否则可能永远难逃其经济困境。

• Kevin : Look, all I wanted to do was take you a nice dress-up party with my family and now it"s just turned into a quagmire.

  看，我只想让你穿得帅点，然后和我的家人一起参加舞会，并不是变成现在的尴尬局面。