quagmire

Word family

quag·mire /ˈkwæɡmaɪə, ˈkwɒɡ- $ ˈkwæɡmaɪr/ noun [countableC usually singular]

1 WETan area of soft wet muddy ground 沼泽地；泥潭，泥泞地

In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.

在雨季，道路变得一片泥泞。

2 COMPLICATEDa difficult or complicated situation 困难[复杂]的局势，困境

The Balkan situation became a political and military quagmire.

巴尔干半岛局势成了政治和军事上的一大难题。

Examples from the Corpus

quagmire• In early April it becomes a quagmire where people challenge their four-wheel-drives in the mud.• Torrential rain was quickly turning the building-site into a quagmire.• Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional, financial and legal issues.• Constant rain turned some of the walkways into quagmires.• For the U.S., the war in Vietnam was a moral and military quagmire.• But the prospect of hostage-taking opens up a new quagmire.• It may also distract its members from the present quagmire with legends of a storied past or promises of an ecstatic future.• Indeed, the inter-connections of this penal trinity of population, capacity and conditions form the heart of the reform quagmire.• There is little more that we can do about this quagmire.

Origin quagmire

(1500-1600) quag “soft wet ground” ((16-20 centuries)) (perhaps from quag “to shake” ((17-19 centuries))) + mire

quag·mire noun

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BNC: 22373 COCA: 16401

quagmire

Difficult situations and experiences: crisis, battle, nightmare...

Wetlands: bog, fen, fenland...

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