quagmire
quagmire 英 [ˈkwægmaɪə(r)] 美 [ˈkwæɡˌmaɪr]
n. 沼泽，沼泽地；无法脱身的困境
名词复数:quagmires
- A quagmire is a dangerous place, like the muddy shoreline of a pond. Because it's so hard to climb out of a quagmire, the word has also come to also mean any difficult or sticky situation you find yourself in.
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- n. 沼泽，沼泽地；无法脱身的困境
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1. Your ideal scene serves as a map that can guide you through the quagmire of options.
你理想的场景就像是地图一样让你走出困住你的现实的沼泽地。
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2. And she deems Iraq “a quagmire for the West and a great and unfolding tragedy for the people” of that country — a “colonial war in a postcolonial era” from which America cannot extricate itself.
她还认为伊拉克是“西方的一个沼泽地”，是该国“人民一个巨大而逐渐呈现的悲剧”。 对这场“后殖民地区的殖民战争”，美国难辞其咎。
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3. The WSFL separates itself from this quagmire by not attempting to be all things to all people, focusing on producing the core model of the workflow.
为了从上述困境中解脱出来，WSFL 不打算适用于所有人，也不打算无所不能，只把重点放在工作流核心模型的产生上。
- quagmire (n.) 1570s, "bog, marsh," from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire (n.). Early spellings include quamyre (1550s), quabmire (1590s), quadmire (c. 1600). Extended sense of "difficult situation, inescapable bad position" is recorded by 1766; but this seems to have been not in common use in much of 19c. (absent in "Century Dictionary," 1902), but revived in a narrower sense in reference to military invasions in American English, 1965, with reference to Vietnam (popularized in the book title "The Making of a Quagmire" by David Halberstam).
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