quagmire

['kwægmaiə]

n.沼泽, 绝境

例句与用法：

He is quaffing his beer by the pint.

他论品脱地大喝啤酒。

We quaffed wine last night.

我们昨晚畅饮了一次酒。

词形变化：

形容词比较级: quaggier | 形容词最高级: quaggiest |

n.

1. 沼泽地

2. 无法脱身的困境

quagmire

词形变化：

形容词比较级: quaggier | 形容词最高级: quaggiest |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

marsh

quagmire['kwæɡmaiə; 'kwɔ-]n.1.■沼泽地；泥潭2.■困境

1. a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
   沼泽地，泥潭；泥泞地
   torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.
   倾盆大雨把建筑工地变成了泥潭。
   ■an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation
   尴尬（或复杂、危险）的处境
   a legal quagmire.
   法律上的困境。
   

1. late 16th cent.: from quag + mire
   

quagmire

名词 quagmire:

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

同义词：mire, quag, morass, slack

quagmire

■"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。

■“Average Californians are the only ones who can lead our state out of the quagmire of special interests and partisanship,” argues one adviser.

“只有普通的加州民众才能带领我们走出党派纷争和小圈子利益的泥潭”，一位顾问如是说。

■"The market rose in after abnormal decline, the more prices fall more into a quagmire.

“市场在暴涨之后出现很不正常的下降,房价越降越陷入泥潭。”

■Fighting during the afternoon was halted by a torrential downpour that turned the battlefield into a quagmire.

一场突如其来的暴雨把战场变得泥泞不堪，下午的战斗也因此中止了。

■After the rain, the football pitch is a real quagmire.

下雨后，足球场变成一片沼泽。

■China-home industry should be how to get out of the traditional quagmire?

中国居家产业应该如何走出传统困局？

■Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.

今天，你们陷在你们自己的困境中。

■He said Kitagawa entered the old town side of the road, there is the original 0.7 square kilometers around the ruins, but now has become a quagmire, with only two broken roof;

他介绍说，进入北川老县城的公路边，原来有0.7平方公里左右的废墟，但现在成了泥潭，只剩下两个破房顶；

■They despaired stuck in the eternal quagmire

他们绝望地堕入永恒的困局之中

■Here standard setters' quest for intellectual consistency will run into a political quagmire.

会计准则的制定者们对公允价值一致性的追求陷入了管理层无限纠缠的沼泽地。

■But at the same time, these channels in Sina property forum of experts pointed out that in order to avoid a high-rent "quagmire", companies may be more selective acquisition of office.

但同时，这些参加新浪房产频道论坛的专家也指出，为了避免陷于高租金的“困局”中，有实力的公司将可能更多地选择购置写字楼。

■Your simple behaviour may result in a quagmire of errors, mis-directed activity and utter frustration.

你一个简单的行为会导致你的工作陷入泥沼，工作方向被误导以及绝对的挫折感。

■Have you visited the quagmire?

你曾去过沼泽吗?

■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。

■In fact, I was wrong, and I was just a quagmire, muddy and messy, even thousands of insight into the world of the state, but also see through their own.

其实，我错了，我只是一个泥潭，浑浊而凌乱，即便洞悉了万千世态，也看不透自己。

■Besides, how was he to again traverse that quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle?

再说，怎样再穿过这靠奇迹才脱险的洼地呢？

■By yesterday afternoon, devastated parents and soldiers had turned the school sports field into a quagmire as they worked through the night to dig hundreds of children out of the rubble.

到昨日下午，悲痛欲绝的家长和赶来救援的官兵已经把学校操场变成了一片沼泽泥潭。他们连夜工作，以期尽早救出被掩埋的数百名学生。

■In Washington, debate is transfixed on the report expected next week from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee promising sagacious advice on how America can best extract itself from the quagmire( see article).

华盛顿则从争论不休转而关注下周由伊拉克问题研究小组即将出台的一份报告。

■1.Another potential quagmire is foreign policy.

另一个潜在的困境是外交政策。

■Moreover, numerous agencies have the power to monitor and block shipments, creating a bureaucratic quagmire.

另外，有很多机构具有监视货物及退货的权力，造成了官僚主义泛滥。

■But the effort in their charges after the end of this huge 18-meter deep into the quagmire.

可是在他们费了九牛二虎之力以后，这块巨石最终还是沉入了18米深的泥潭里。

■The only saving feature of this quagmire of passive infinitives is that we don t see them all that often.

唯一令人安心的是这些令人困扰的被动是不定词并不常见。

■They watch helplessly as Chia-wen descends into a quagmire of booze and gambling.

嘉文（杨帆饰）跟可欣（何莉莉饰）、湘怡（井莉饰）及纪远（金汉饰）本为朋友，却发生了多角恋情，结局令人唏嘘。

■In the 10 years prior to the Asian financial crisis, Southeast Asian economies bogged down in a quagmire.

在10年前的亚洲金融风暴中，东南亚各经济体深陷泥潭。

■Given the legal quagmire we live in, there is no middle way.

在我们所面临的法律困境中，没有中间的道路可走。

■" In the face of all kinds of tribulations, they did not bow, but difficulties, the life out of the quagmire.

在种种磨难面前，他们没有低头，反而迎难而上，走出了生活的泥沼。

■sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of error

在错误的泥坑里越陷越深

■The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire.

大雨滂沱, 球场变成了泥沼.

■The heavy rain had turned the pitch into a quagmire .

大雨滂沱,球场变成了泥沼.

■Uranus in Pisces conj.the North Lunar Node shows that the best to be achieved is a grass-roots movement toward freedom and extrication from the quagmire.

天王星与月北交点在双鱼宫会合，表示要脱离厄困，最好是由草根阶层发起社会运动争取自由（赶走美军？）

■She said that she couldn't make a living in her chosen profession and that not even her moonlighting twice a week could put her out of the financial quagmire she was in.

她说她选择的教师职业使她无法生活下去，即使她每周两次晚上出去打工，还是不能摆脱经济站据的窘境。李小姐的情况很普遍。

■Those saddled with these names face a lifetime of funny looks, or a bureaucratic quagmire trying to change them.

姓这些姓的孩子们一生面对的是人们嘲讽的脸色，或者想改名字时所面对的难缠的官僚们。

■William James called this view a "quagmire of evasion."

威廉·詹姆士将这一观点称为“推诿的泥潭”。

■it helps me cut through the possible quagmire of confusion and really focus.

它助我在困惑的沼泽中奋勇前进，且让我全神贯注（地面对困难）。

■It is a road up and out of the quagmire in which we are all stuck, the swamp of our own desires and aversions.

它是一个走出泥潭的道理。一个脱离我们本身欲望与拒绝的泥潭的方法。

■quagmire of employment

就业困境

■During its first term, the Bush administration suffered setbacks by carrying out hardline policies of unilateralism in the Middle East, and sank in the quagmire of Iraq and felt difficult to get out of it.

布什政府第一任期内,在中东推行单边主义强硬政策多方受挫,在伊拉克更陷于泥潭而难以自拔。

■To introduce the Declaration of Trust and to affirm the legal status of alienation guarantee could resolve the legal quagmire that margin trading faces.

引入宣言信托和确立让与担保的法律地位可以化解融资融券交易担保制度的法律困境。

■When coach Rick - Adelman in the fourth quarter put replacement, a rocket attack once again plunged into a quagmire.

当主教练里克-阿德尔曼在第四节派上替补时，火箭的进攻再次陷入泥潭。

■At present, the European economy as a whole are bogged down in the quagmire, the degree of weakness or even more than that of the United States.

当前，整个欧洲经济都深陷泥沼，疲软程度甚至被认为超过了美国。

■I hope we can quickly get out of the quagmire.

我希望我们能够快点走出这个困境。

■9.I served in that quagmire and by god this Dipshit plan sucks ,plain and simple Keep these COMMIE bastards out of our business ,Clinton already gave them the ranch.

我曾在那泥沼内服役，那笨蛋计划拖住我们，明白简单的让它脱离我们的掌握，克林顿已经给了他们大农场。

■He helped me to get unstuck in the quagmire of writing a Ph.

我有幸能在一项计划中使用大学的电脑帮助我这位尊敬的友人（陈瑜伽士）。

■My wellingtons got stuck in a quagmire.

我的威灵顿长靴陷在泥坑里。

■My mistake was to underestimate the ability of the worlds premier financial institutions to sink themselves in a quagmire.

我的错误是低估了全球主要金融机构把自己拖入困境的能力。

■Or a tough war with many casualties on both sides, followed by a long and painful occupation of a devastated country, becoming an endless quagmire as Iraq defies all efforts to impose democracy and stability?

或者是一场艰苦的战争，双方死伤惨重，历经时日才能占领一个行将瓦解的国家，而由于伊拉克拒绝实行民主稳定政策的一切努力，此役将永无止境?

■Napoleon also inadvertently fall into the quagmire of time, have been made all over the mud, mood.

拿破仑也因一时不慎掉入泥潭中，被弄得满身泥巴，狼狈不堪。

■It's a smile thrown across an abyss.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。

■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。

■7. Some comrades say that in the struggle against Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, more political cadres were duped -- or even "trapped in the quagmire " -- than others.

有同志反映：在同林彪、“四人帮”的斗争中，政治干部上当受骗甚至陷进去的，从数量上说，比其他干部多。