quagmire 的定义
- an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness.
- anything soft or flabby.
quagmire 近义词
bad situation
bog
更多quagmire例句
- It doesn’t actually address the larger quagmire, and no app or private benefit will.
- Long ago, Americans lost both a sense of the war’s purpose and any appetite for quagmire.
- Your framework describes a scenario where things go from crusade to quagmire.
- Couples like Niemer and Backstrom are navigating a tricky quagmire of ethics and etiquette to ensure the safety of their big day.
- He was painting and selling his delicate “abstract impressionist” paintings while watching coverage of the quagmire in Vietnam.
- And the reasons for that suggest just how densely complicated the Mideast quagmire has become.
- Creator David Simon meant the line to be a reference to the quagmire of the Iraq War.
- To date Obama has been determined not to talk about that, likely because to complain is to risk a corrosive quagmire.
- Four years later, he has absented himself utterly from the quagmire in which nearly 90 million Egyptians find themselves.
- In the 1980s the goal was to defeat the Soviets by creating a quagmire for the Red Army like Vietnam was for America.
- In the centre of this quagmire and near where the road crosses the bottom is a spring of good water.
- I was so near discovering the truth, and yet my inquiries had only plunged me more deeply into a quagmire of suspicion and horror.
- The moor was boggy, and he crossed patches of quagmire which trembled even under his light weight.
- At one spot my horse sank into a quagmire, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that I finally got it out again.
- In the pelting rain of a Burmese monsoon the so-called road soon became a mere quagmire.