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morass

/muh-ras/US // məˈræs //UK // (məˈræs) //

泥坑,泥沼,泥土,泥坑里

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
    • : a marsh or bog.
    • : marshy ground.
    • : any confusing or troublesome situation, especially one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement.

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Examples

  • For more than a century, researchers have dug for answers, seemingly found them, argued about them and searched some more, resulting in a morass of confounding information.

  • They demonstrated you could do things citywide, and get out of the morass of arguing with the community planning groups.

  • Thinking about it this way keeps you out of the whole judging-not-judging morass, too, which I encourage at every opportunity.

  • It’s hard not to see them as an unconscious reminder of the morass of “very old politics” he is trying to reject.

  • Companies fear that by adopting it they may be inadvertently stepping into an ethical, reputational or regulatory morass.

  • Meanwhile, Russia is sinking ever deeper into its economic morass.

  • The program paid Thai formers above-market rates for rice, but became bogged down in a financial morass.

  • These groups tend to push for a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian morass.

  • She took up the miserable chore of attending dodgy networking events, but out of that morass came the character of Tallah.

  • The facts on the ground are anything but auspicious for America injecting itself into an intra-Arab morass.

  • In that part, it was little better than a morass, from the occasional overflowing of the waters at the rainy seasons.

  • He took them across the morass, about a mile wide, over a causeway of branches, which the rear demolished as they passed.

  • The graves of thousands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilential morass of Dundalk.

  • He is like a strong man struggling in a morass: every effort to extricate himself only sinks him deeper and deeper.

  • At the foot of the hill lay a deep morass, covered with the nelumbo and other aquatic plants.