a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
deep soft mud in water or slush;"they waded through the slop"
a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from;"the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president" "caught in the mire of poverty"
Verb:
entrap;"Our people should not be mired in the past"
cause to get stuck as if in a mire;"The mud mired our cart"
be unable to move further;"The car bogged down in the sand"
soil with mud, muck, or mire;"The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
c. 1300, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myrr "bog, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *miuzja- (source of Old English mos "bog, marsh"), from PIE *meus- "damp" (see moss).
mire (v.)
c. 1400, in figurative sense of "to involve in difficulties," from mire (n.). Literal sense is from 1550s. Related: Mired; miring.
词态变化
复数 mires;
权威造句
1. The wheels sank deeper into the mire.
轮子在泥潭中陷得更深了。
来自《权威词典》
2. I don"t want my son"s good name dragged through the mire.
我不想使我儿子的名誉扫地.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. She couldn"t withstand the lure of money and was dragged into the mire.
她经不起金钱的引诱,被拉下水了.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. " He"s an old friend, " he went on, getting deeper into the mire.
