单词quagmire
n.: 泥沼；泥淖；湿地；困境
网络: 沼泽；沼泽地；泥沼地
泥淖；湿地；泥沼:
an area of soft wet ground
困境；险境:
a difficult or dangerous situation
泥泞地
软泥地
泥坑
泥沼地
泥沼土地
沼泽地
复数：quagmires
n.swampmarshbogmirequicksand
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。