| 单词 | mire |
| 释义 | mire (once / 1220 pages) nv A mire is mushy ground like quicksand, so if you feel yourself trapped in a sticky situation, consider yourself mired. One gets mired IN something — like in a dispute or in a love triangle. Mire still has its original, though less-used, sense of a slushy, muddy bit of land that gives way underfoot, also known as a quagmire. One of the most famous mires in literary history was the one haunted by the Hound of the Baskervilles in Conan Doyle's classic. Have the fibs you told your beloved come back to haunt you? You're stuck in a mire then, a treacherous situation it's going to be pretty hard to squirm out of. WORD FAMILYmire: mired, mires, miring, miry+/miry: mirily USAGE EXAMPLESHe saw his fellow-citizens as being naturally bathetic—striving for spiritual grandeur while ultimately mired in everyday, material concerns. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) The same reasoning might apply to the Afghan government, which is mired in political crisis and a long-running war. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) The Sounders were mired in ninth place in the Western Conference at 6-12-2. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot Syn|Hyper morass, quag, quagmire, slack bog, peat bog 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 2n deep soft mud in water or slush Syn|Hyper slop clay, mud water soaked soil; soft wet earth 3n 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 Hyper difficulty a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 4v cause to get stuck as if in a mire The mud mired our cart Syn bog down bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt be unable to move further 5v soil with mud, muck, or mire Syn|Hyper muck, muck up, mud begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty 6v be unable to move further Syn|Hyper bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt bog down cause to get stuck as if in a mire stand still remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile 7v entrap Our people should not be mired in the past Syn|Hyper entangle involve engage as a participant |
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