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quagmire

/kwag-mahyuhr, kwog-/US // ˈkwægˌmaɪər, ˈkwɒg- //UK // (ˈkwæɡˌmaɪə, ˈkwɒɡ-) //

泥潭,困局,困境

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.