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- a stretch of swampy or boggy ground泥潭; 沼泽; 泥沼。
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- mass noun soft and slushy mud or dirt烂泥, 污泥, 淤泥。
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- figurative a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself〈喻〉困境：
he has been left to squirm in a mire of new allegations.
他陷入再次受指控的困境。
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- Ecology a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat【生态】沼泽; 泥炭生态系统。
with obj.(一般作be mired)
1- cause to become stuck in mud使陷入泥坑：
sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down.
有些时候重载卡车会陷入泥坑。
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- cover or spatter with mud用污泥覆盖; 使溅满污泥。
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- figurative (mire someone/thing in) involve someone or something in (difficulties)〈喻〉使陷入（困境）; 使受困扰：
the economy is mired in its longest recession since the second world war.
经济陷入二战以来最长衰退期。
词源
Middle English: from Old Norse mýrr, of Germanic origin; related to MOSS.