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mudhole

/muhd-hohl/US // ˈmʌdˌhoʊl //

泥坑,泥洞,泥孔,泥潭

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a depression in which mud collects.

Examples

  • The water drained into a shallow low depression in a large meadow, and made a mudhole, a cattle wallow.

  • Three miserable weeks I spent somewhere in some stinking Southern Pacific mudhole.

  • The novice is almost certain to run it into a ditch the first thing, or get stuck on a hill, or in a sand patch or a mudhole.

  • There's been enough rubbers lost in that mudhole to about fill it, so it won't take much to fill it up.

  • Every mile or so we had to plunge through a quagmire, equal to the worst South African mudhole, which is saying a great deal.