quagmire是什么意思_quagmire怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

quagmire: quagmire: [16] The now virtually defunct word quag denoted a ‘marsh’, particularly one with a top layer of turf that moved when you trod on it. Combination with mire (which also originally meant ‘marsh’, and is related to English moss) produced quagmire. It is not known where quag came from, but its underlying meaning is generally taken to be ‘shake, tremble’, and it may ultimately be of imitative origin.
quagmire (n.): 1570s, "bog, marsh," from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire (n.). Early spellings include quamyre (1550s), quabmire (1590s), quadmire (c. 1600). Extended sense of "difficult situation, inescapable bad position" is recorded by 1766; but this seems to have been not in common use in much of 19c. (absent in "Century Dictionary," 1902), but revived in a narrower sense in reference to military invasions in American English, 1965, with reference to Vietnam (popularized in the book title "The Making of a Quagmire" by David Halberstam).

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复数 quagmires;

1. 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. We have no intention of being drawn into a political quagmire.: 我们无意卷入一场政治困境。

4. He who tries to conceal his fault for fear of criticism will sink deeper and deeper in the quagmire of errors.: 讳疾忌医的人,错误越陷越深.

5. On their way was a quagmire which was difficult to get over.: 路上他俩遇到了—个泥坑,很难过得去.

marsh 沼泽

mire 泥沼

morass 沼泽

swamp 沼泽

bog 沼泽

quicksand 流沙

predicament 困境

dilemma 困境

quandary 困惑

muddle 混乱

imbroglio 纷乱

crisis 危机

perplexity 困惑

entanglement 纠缠

slack 松弛的

quag 沼地

be bogged down in a quagmire 陷入困境

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