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quicksand基本信息

quicksand基本信息

读法：英 ["kwɪksænd] 美 ["kwɪksænd]

释义：

n. [水利] 流沙，危险状态

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英英释义

Noun:

a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

中英词源

quicksand 流沙，困境

来自quick,活的，sand,沙子。比喻用法，引申词义困境。

quicksand (n.): c. 1300, from Middle English quyk "living" (see quick (adj.)) + sond "sand" (see sand (n.)). Old English had cwecesund, but this might have meant "lively strait of water."

词态变化

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权威造句

1. The sandbank was uncertain, like quicksand under his feet.: 那个沙坝并不稳固，他脚下如同踩着流沙一般。

2. I was about to sink into the quicksand of sin.: 我就要陷入罪孽的深渊了。

3. The research seemed founded on quicksand.: 这项研究犹如建在流沙之上，基础极不稳固。

4. Sand under quick condition is often called quicksand.: 通常把快速流动的沙叫做流砂.

5. I had penetrated the secret which the quicksand had kept from every other living creature.: 流沙对世人保守的秘密给我拆穿了.

近反义词

threat 威胁

swamp 沼泽

marsh 沼泽

quagmire 沼泽

bog 沼泽

mire 泥沼

morass 沼泽

相似短语

self made quicksand 自成悬浮体

单词分析

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记忆方法

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