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单词 quagmire
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N17126660quagmireSpoken.212Fiction.63Magazine.146Newspaper.144Academic.95

quagmire

/ˈkwægmaɪə(r)/
noun
1
a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
沼泽地, 泥潭; 泥泞地:

torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.

倾盆大雨把建筑工地变成了泥潭。

1.1
an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation
尴尬(或复杂、危险)的处境:

a legal quagmire.

法律困境。

词源
late 16th cent.: from QUAG+MIRE.
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