quicksand

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Naturequicksandquick‧sand /ˈkwɪksænd/ noun [countable, uncountable] 1 DNwet sand that is dangerous because you sink down into it if you try to walk on it2 a bad situation that keeps getting worse, and that you cannot escape fromExamples from the Corpusquicksand• Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.• She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.• Gilbert's squirming body vanished into the carpet like quicksand.• The blackness was suddenly all around, closing in like quicksand.• It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand.• The lock had been built on quicksand, and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.

单词	quicksand
释义	quicksand From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Naturequicksandquick‧sand /ˈkwɪksænd/ noun [countable, uncountable] 1 DNwet sand that is dangerous because you sink down into it if you try to walk on it2 a bad situation that keeps getting worse, and that you cannot escape fromExamples from the Corpusquicksand• Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.• She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.• Gilbert's squirming body vanished into the carpet like quicksand.• The blackness was suddenly all around, closing in like quicksand.• It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand.• The lock had been built on quicksand, and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.
随便看	be another thing/matter be answerable to be answerable to for be answerable to somebody (for something) be anybody's guess be anybodys guess be anybody’s guess be apt to do be apt to do something be as American as apple pie be as good as it gets be as good as your word be as nice as pie be as pure as the driven snow be as safe as houses be as thick as thieves be ashamed of yourself be ashamed to do be ashamed to do something be asking for it be asking for trouble be assessed as be assessed as something be assessed at be assessed at something