| 单词 | bog |
| 释义 | bog (once / 1032 pages) 1n 2v You'd be pretty soggy by morning if you accidentally set your tent up in a bog. A bog is a swampy kind of ground made up mostly of decomposing plants and mosses. Nothing can be built on a bog because the ground is so spongy and damp, and no crops can be grown there. The dried soil from a bog can, however, be dried and burned for fuel. A figurative bog is anything that you tend to get stuck in, like a bog of health problems. Things can also "bog you down", or slow you down literally or figuratively, like when your homework bogs you down so you can't enjoy the weekend. WORD FAMILYbog: bogged, bogging, boggy, bogs USAGE EXAMPLESRussia doesn't want to get bogged down in a long war and wants to hold Syria together and keep it as an ally. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) “It’s refreshing to not be bogged down on the emotional side of it, just relax and play our game.” Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) And the resulting changes are certain to get bogged down in the courts for years. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 n wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper peat bog mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slack a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot slougha hollow filled with mud wetland a low area where the land is saturated with water 1v cause to slow down or get stuck The vote would bog down the house Syn|Hyper bog down slow, slow down, slow up cause to proceed more slowly 2v get stuck while doing something She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation Syn|Hyper bog down break, break off, discontinue, stop prevent completion |
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