n. 1.泥沼;淤泥;矿泥。 2.〔罕用语〕沾污,污辱;污物。 短语和例子 drag (sb.) through the mire 使丢丑,侮辱,搞臭。 find [stick] oneself in the mire弄得一筹莫展,束手无策,陷进泥坑里。 vt. 1.使溅满泥泞;使陷进泥坑里。 2.使进退不得;使为难。 vi. 1.弄得浑身是泥,陷入泥坑。 2.进退不得,一筹莫展。 短语和例子 She mired her car and had to go for help. 她开的车陷入泥泞中,不得不请人帮助。
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot 同义词:quagmire, quag, morass, slack,
a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"
deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" 同义词:slop,
soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" 同义词:muck, mud, muck up,
be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" 同义词:grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down,
cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" 同义词:bog down,
entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" 同义词:entangle,
A mire, also referred to as a quagmire, sometimes called a peatland (in North America), is a wetland terrain dominated by living, peat-forming plants, although for botanists and ecologists the term peatland is technically a more universal term for any terrain dominated by peat to a depth of 30-40cm, even if it has been completely drained (i.e.
例句与用法
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The pwa was mired in red tape . 公共工程管理局陷于官样文章的困境之中。
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He would pull himself out of the mire . 他要把自己拨出泥淖。
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She mired her car and had to go for help . 她开的车陷入泥泞中,不得不请人帮助。
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But later on beaucock had fallen into the mire . 但是后来,比奥库克陷入了困境。
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The hundred and twenty ton aircraft was deeply mired . 这架一百二十吨重的飞机深深地陷了进去。
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The most brilliant leadership can be mired in detail . 最有才干的领导也会陷于拘泥琐事的困境中。
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She couldn't withstand the lure of money and was dragged into the mire . 她经不起金钱的引诱,被拉下水了。
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In the case of the mired 707, instinct told him it was a moderately-acute crisis . 就拿那个陷在泥里的707飞机来说,本能告诉他这个情况是介乎不严重和严重之间。
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If you react only to that part of what i say, then you, too, are caught as much as he in the mire of blind emotion . 如果你们只对我所讲的一部分做出反映,那么你们也跟他一样掉进了盲目感情的泥坑。
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The princes of the church praise thee, because thou has redeemed the faith their worldlinesses have dragged through the mire . 教会的领袖们赞颂你,因为你用生命把由于他们汲汲于名利而玷污的信仰拯救出来了。