mare's-nest / ˈmɛərzˌnɛst /

马蜂窝燕窝燕子窝母猪窝

mare's-nest 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
  2. an extremely confused, entangled, or disordered place, situation, etc.: We just moved in, and the place is a mare's-nest.

mare's-nest 近义词

mare's-nest

等同于 mare's nest

mare's-nest

等同于 deception

更多mare's-nest例句

  1. “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
  2. “Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
  3. In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
  4. “The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film,” Schiff said.
  5. A third cabinet member used public funds to pay in an S & M bar.
  6. A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
  7. Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
  8. The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
  9. Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
  10. Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.