单词	quicksand
释义	quicksand /ˈkwɪksand / noun [mass noun] (also quicksands) 1Loose wet sand that yields easily to pressure and sucks in anything resting on or falling into it: it’s best to travel with a local as there are quicksands... Victims are sucked down by quicksands and drowned by the tides that can race in faster than a man can run. When an old coach route from Lancaster to Kendal used to take a shortcut across the bay, several coaches were either overtaken by the tide or sucked under in quicksand. Far from holding the intellectual high ground, economics rests on foundations of quicksand. 1.1A bad or dangerous situation from which it is hard to escape: John found himself sinking fast in financial quicksand... Unconventional measures - quantitative easing - seem to have been sufficient to avoid the quicksand of deflation. Each day we seem to sink deeper into the quicksand of self-indulgence. Our constitutional system, despite six major revisions, has apparently become trapped by a quicksand of confusion.
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