quagmire

quagmire

美 [ˈkwæɡˌmaɪr] 　英 [ˈkwæɡˌmaɪə(r)]

• n.泥沼；泥淖；湿地；困境
• 网络沼泽；沼泽地；泥沼地

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The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.

整个发臭的文明世界像一块沼泽地一样处于这个深渊底部，这种犹犹豫豫的微笑像一座海市蜃楼一样在上面飘忽不定地摇曳。

She wanted to go on like this not to the next smoothly off from nearby vines, stretching from the quagmire of mud stained the ground sway.

她想这样下去不行，就顺手从附近折下一条藤蔓，伸入泥潭，沾上泥浆向地上挥洒。

You [America] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.

你[美国]不能维护你的权力向伊拉克提供了数辆坦克，大炮和武器。如今，你是轮到你自己的事了。

Since the "9. 11" , after George W. Bush launched two consecutive so-called "war on terror" , the United States into a quagmire of war.

自从“9.11”之后，小布什连续发动了两场所谓的“反恐战争”，把美国拖入到战争的泥潭。

"Vietnam" , synonymous with "quagmire" , is shorthand for an unwinnable war. So it was over the war in Iraq.

“越南”，这一“沼泽”的同义词，是对一场注定失败的战争的简要表述。

So, far from being on the brink of another quagmire, Libya is in fact in pole position compared with other countries in the region.

所以，利比亚非但不会陷入困境，实际上还在该地区的几个国家中占有优势。

It was the sound of a large number of horses'feet trampling through the quagmire.

有人声大批马匹的脚踏在泥潭。

By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire.

由于践踏得多了，我们把盐泽的边沿弄成一个泥沼了。

Over the next few decades, something's gotta give -- or else Japan may never escape from its quagmire.

未来几十年，日本必须有所动作，否则可能永远难逃其经济困境。

Kevin : Look, all I wanted to do was take you a nice dress-up party with my family and now it's just turned into a quagmire.

看，我只想让你穿得帅点，然后和我的家人一起参加舞会，并不是变成现在的尴尬局面。

Fighting during the afternoon was halted by a torrential downpour that turned the battlefield into a quagmire.

一场突如其来的暴雨把战场变得泥泞不堪，下午的战斗也因此中止了。

Given the political quagmire, economic policy in the next few years is likely to remain a matter of muddling through.

考虑到政治上的困境，民主党未来几年的经济政策也许都只能敷衍了事。

My mistake was to underestimate the ability of the world's premier financial institutions to sink themselves in a quagmire.

我的错误是低估了全球主要金融机构把自己拖入困境的能力。

Here standard setters' quest for intellectual consistency will run into a political quagmire.

在这里标准安装员对知识一贯性的追求将陷入一个政治泥潭之中。

Danes fear that without the krone they might have sunk into an Irish quagmire .

丹麦人担心的是如果没有了克朗（丹麦的通行货币）他们国家可能会陷入像爱尔兰那样的困境。

Unreasonable sales practices make homemade laser mold welder into a quagmire, it is difficult to extricate themselves.

做法不合理的销售使之成为一个泥潭国产激光模具焊机，难以自拔。

And Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, has chimed in with warnings of a Vietnam-style quagmire.

美参议员约翰•麦凯恩，前共和党总统候选人则警告美国可能陷入越战一样的泥潭。

Within weeks, though, vainglory turns into a costly and bloody quagmire.

但是，几周之内，虚荣变成了昂贵的和血腥的泥潭。

Gives people a sense of ominous silence, I even think that a writer would not be jumping into the quagmire of the unfinished bar.

给人一种不祥的死寂之感，我甚至在想，那个作家不会是画完了就跳进了泥潭吧。

Arriving in China in early March, Stilwell found himself in a military and political quagmire.

在三月抵达中国以后，是地位很快发现他处在一个军事和政治的困局之中。

The republic is a quagmire for several months a year.

整个国家一年里有几个月是泥潭。

What VS Naipaul rightly described as a political, moral, quagmire, and the denial that it entails, still reigns supreme.

这一被奈保尔正确描述为一个政治、道德、困境以及它所需要的否定，仍占据着统治地位。

And deciding whether to turn down requests for Facebook "friends" is a social quagmire in itself.

而决定是否拒绝Facebook上的“好友”请求，本身就是一个社交困境。

They met the bullets of the regime with bare chest, preferring to guard their revolution rather than be lured into the quagmire of violence.

革命者们用胸膛迎接政府的子弹，他们守护着革命，不让其陷入暴力的泥沼。

Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss the man in there?

说起洼地来，你真是一个古怪的家伙，为什么你不把这个人丢进去？

Firms that have already spent a fortune to protect their brands online fear that the expansion will create a huge legal quagmire.

那些已经花费了大把的钱财去保护自己的网络品牌的企业，害怕地址数量膨胀将会创造一个巨大的法律困境。

True, no sustainable exit from the present quagmire can be envisaged without increased net capital flows into emerging countries.

没错，如果流入新兴国家的净资本不增加，就无法设想摆脱当前困境的可持续退出策略。

When Mr Obama was running for election, Iraq looked like a quagmire and Afghanistan seemed more winnable.

当奥巴马进行大选的时候，伊拉克看起来一团糟，而阿富汗却形式大好。

Unable to struggle, swamp quagmire. A person who's efforts, the struggle. The strange city, strange people.

无力的挣扎着，陷入沼泽的泥潭之中。一个人默默的努力着，奋斗着。陌生的城市，陌生的人。

It began that way. After that a thaw came, it all melted, soil turned into a quagmire.

最初情况也是如此，可是在天气变暖冰雪融化后，大地变成了沼泽。

You have the power to recondition your thoughts, but the trick is to keep your consciousness out of the quagmire of blame.

你可以改变想法，但是最关键的是不要让自己的思想陷入抱怨的泥沼之中。

The chaos that followed the invasion in Iraq and the quagmire in Afghanistan seemed to testify to America's diminished power.

美国入侵伊拉克之后出现的混乱局面，以及美国陷入阿富汗战争泥潭，似乎表明了美国实力的下降。

Over the months those analysts have reminded us of their views, calling Libya a quagmire.

过去几个月来，这些分析人士让我们想起了他们的观点：他们将利比亚称为一个泥潭。

Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.

冉阿让走上这平坦的斜坡，就走到了泥沼的另一边。

But now that my life is much more complicated, it helps me cut through the possible quagmire of confusion and really focus.

但是现在的生活复杂多了，它使我在困惑的泥潭中找到捷径，并为之全神贯注。

Despite its rich culture Argentine is steeped in a political and economic quagmire.

阿根廷尽管正在文化上是富有的，但却深陷于政治与经济的泥沼之中。

When critics in Washington and elsewhere declared Libya a quagmire, these leaders refused to back away.

当华盛顿和其他地方的评论者称利比亚陷入绝境时，这些国家的领导人没有退缩。

The games end in not just a military quagmire but also serious fallout in U. S. domestic politics.

游戏不仅结局成一场军事上的泥潭，而且还预示美国国内政治中将出现严重对抗。

For those who remain unconscious to the darks' agenda, exist in the quagmire of ignorance and have assumed a machine like existence.

那些仍然尚未意识到黑暗议程的人，深陷无知的泥淖中如同机器人般存在着。

Presumably the idea of being dragged into another Central Asian quagmire discouraged it.

或许是陷入另一个中亚泥潭的想法让俄罗斯不那样做。