quicksand

英 ['kwɪksænd] 美 ['kwɪksænd]

• n. 流沙；陷阱

英英释义

Noun:

1. a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

2. a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
   骡子不会陷入流沙中,但是驴子会。
2. Is it true that a man who steps into quicksand is doomed to die?
   掉入流沙中的人就注定会死去吗？
3. Yet it has a way of slipping through your fingers like quicksand.
   可是它会像流沙一样从缝间溜走。
4. Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
   虚荣乃理学之流沙。
5. Conceit is the quicksand of success.
   自负是成功的流沙。

经典引文

• By confiding in her..he had trodden unwarily into the quicksand of emotional dependence on her.

  出自： P. Arrowsmith

近反义词

【近义词】

• threat 威胁
• swamp 沼泽
• marsh 沼泽
• quagmire 沼泽
• bog 沼泽
• mire 泥沼
• morass 沼泽