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quagmire

/ˈkwæɡ.maɪɹ/ 名词 C2

中文: 沼泽、泥潭

  1. A swampy, soggy area of ground. · That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
  2. A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle. (figuratively) · The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.· Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.

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From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第199页 · C1

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