英语词汇“quagmire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

quagmire

/ˈkwaɡmʌɪə

/ /ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/

noun

1A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot: torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire...

In the 19th century, the area was a quagmire with a creek running through it.
The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
When we got there it was raining very hard and the patio area was a quagmire.

Synonyms

swamp, morass, bog, peat bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, fen, slough, quicksand;

Scottish & Northern English moss;

Irish corcass;

North American bayou, pocosin, moor

archaic marish, carr

1.1An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation: a legal quagmire...

Officials in Indonesia have warned that if the legal quagmire is not sorted out before Tristan reaches the age of five, he cannot be adopted.
This is expected to become a legal quagmire, with landholders' interests already warning of test cases over compulsory purchases.
Looking to the future, the legal quagmire of the Internet presents new issues and challenges to both free speech and morality.

Synonyms

muddle, mix-up, mess, predicament, unfortunate/difficult/awkward situation, mare's nest, quandary, entanglement, tangle, jumble, imbroglio;

trouble, confusion, difficulty;

corner, tight corner/spot

informal sticky situation, pickle, hole, stew, dilemma, fix, bind, jam, scrape, kettle of fish, how-do-you-do, hot/deep water

West Indian comess

Origin

Late 16th century: from quag + mire.

单词	quagmire
释义	quagmire /ˈkwaɡmʌɪə / /ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/ noun 1A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot: torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire... In the 19th century, the area was a quagmire with a creek running through it. The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. When we got there it was raining very hard and the patio area was a quagmire. Synonyms swamp, morass, bog, peat bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, fen, slough, quicksand; Scottish & Northern English moss; Irish corcass; North American bayou, pocosin, moor archaic marish, carr 1.1An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation: a legal quagmire... Officials in Indonesia have warned that if the legal quagmire is not sorted out before Tristan reaches the age of five, he cannot be adopted. This is expected to become a legal quagmire, with landholders' interests already warning of test cases over compulsory purchases. Looking to the future, the legal quagmire of the Internet presents new issues and challenges to both free speech and morality. Synonyms muddle, mix-up, mess, predicament, unfortunate/difficult/awkward situation, mare's nest, quandary, entanglement, tangle, jumble, imbroglio; trouble, confusion, difficulty; corner, tight corner/spot informal sticky situation, pickle, hole, stew, dilemma, fix, bind, jam, scrape, kettle of fish, how-do-you-do, hot/deep water West Indian comess Origin Late 16th century: from quag + mire.
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