mire

英 ['maɪə(r)] 美 ['maɪər]

• n. 泥沼；泥泞；困境
• v. (使)陷于泥泞；(使)陷入困境

英英释义

Noun:

1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

2. deep soft mud in water or slush;

   "they waded through the slop"
   

3. 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"
   

Verb:

1. entrap;

   "Our people should not be mired in the past"
   

2. cause to get stuck as if in a mire;

   "The mud mired our cart"
   

3. be unable to move further;

   "The car bogged down in the sand"
   

4. soil with mud, muck, or mire;

   "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The mist arose in the remote mire.
   遥远的泥沼上方升起了薄雾。
2. He has run away and landed in the mire.
   他逃开,却开到泥坑里去了。
3. He tried to increase his income by gambling only to plunge more deeply into the mire.
   他企图借赌博增加收入,却陷入了更深的困境。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Don' t mire the wheels of a cart.
   不要让车轮陷于泥坑。
2. The most brilliant person may be mired in detail and confusion.
   即使是最聪明的人也会陷入琐事与混乱之中。

经典引文

• The track..was a mire, impassable even for four-wheel drive vehicles.

  出自： S. Naipaul

• No turbulent..hailstorms or thunderstorms to mire or discomfit them.

  出自： J. Heller

• The milk cow was mired in a bog hole.

  出自：New Yorker

词汇搭配

• find oneself in the mire 隐于困境(束手无策)...
• mire drum 天然盐水
• mire vegetation 沼泽植被,沼泽地植被...
• drag sb. through the mire 把某人搞臭
• be in the mire 陷入困境
• drag someone's name through the mire 玷污某人的名声...
• drag someone through the mire 使某人丢丑,把某人的...
• stick in the mire 陷在泥淖里

近反义词

【近义词】

• mud 泥
• slush 软泥(油灰
• morass 沼泽
• muck 垃圾
• slime 烂泥
• quagmire 沼泽
• swamp 沼泽
• marsh 沼泽
• sludge 泥泞
• bog 沼泽
• muddy 泥泞的
• clay 黏土
• dirt 污垢
• bog down 陷入泥淖
• get stuck 被卡在 ...
• muck up 弄脏
• entangle 使 ... 纠缠
• slack 松弛的
• grind to a halt 困住
• quag 沼地
• slop (液体等)晃荡...