英 [ˈkwæɡmaɪə(r)] 美 [ˈkwæɡmaɪər]
n. 沼泽，泥泞地；困境，尴尬的处境
复数quagmires
quagmire /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪə/
可数名词 A quagmire is a difficult, complicated, or unpleasant situation which is not easy to avoid or escape from. 泥潭; 指困难、复杂或讨厌的困境且不易从中脱身
His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion.
他的人已在困惑的泥潭中越陷越深。
可数名词 A quagmire is a soft, wet area of land which your feet sink into if you try to walk across it. 沼泽地
Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
雨水已将这片草地变成了沼泽。
泥潭
沼泽
沼泽
湿沼泽地
泥潭
（碧海青天）拉扯(Pull)下仍在泥潭(Quagmire)里的我，学习就像工作只要努力就会有好成绩。佛语(The Buddhist)：救人一命胜造七级浮屠！
... defenestration (将人或物)扔出窗外，民众表示愤恨的方法之一 quagmire 沼泽地，泥潭 matrix 矩阵 ...
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Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
雨水已将这片草地变成了沼泽。
His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion.
他的人已在困惑的泥潭中越陷越深。
This is why we're still in this quagmire in Iraq.
正因为这样，我们还仍旧深陷伊拉克困境。
Voices,even within President Barack Obama's own party, warn that the United States risks being drawn into a Vietnam-like quagmire and that Afghanistan may become Obama's Vietnam.
VOA : standard.2009.09.09
This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"
VOA : standard.2009.10.09
The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.
这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西
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They are incapable of fixing the bureaucratic quagmire largely because it is incapable of being fixed.
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The best example of this has been on perennial quagmire of agricultural sector reform.
All of the cadets interviewed say they want to help Iraq out of its sectarian quagmire.