mire

英 [ˈmaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈmaɪər]

n.  泥潭; 泥沼
v.  (使)陷于泥泞; (使)陷入困境

复数：mires　过去分词：mired　过去式：mired　现在分词：miring　第三人称单数：mires　

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BNC.19852 / COCA.13062

牛津词典

noun

• 泥潭；泥沼
  an area of deep mud
  1. The wheels sank deeper into the mire.
     轮子在泥潭中陷得更深了。
  2. My name had been dragged through the mire (= my reputation was ruined) .
     我的名声受到了玷污。
  3. The government was sinking deeper and deeper into the mire (= getting further into a difficult situation) .
     政府在泥潭中越陷越深。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 泥潭;困境;艰难处境
  You can refer to an unpleasant or difficult situation as amireof some kind.
  1. ...a mire of poverty and ignorance.
     贫穷与无知的泥潭
• N-UNCOUNT 灰尘;烂泥;污泥
  Mireis dirt or mud.
  1. ...the muck and mire of sewers and farm- yards.
     下水道和农家庭院的污垢和烂泥

英英释义

noun

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  Synonym:quagmirequagmorassslack
• a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
  1. the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president
  2. caught in the mire of poverty
• deep soft mud in water or slush
  1. they waded through the slop
  Synonym:slop

verb

• soil with mud, muck, or mire
  1. The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
  Synonym:muckmudmuck up
• be unable to move further
  1. The car bogged down in the sand
  Synonym:grind to a haltget stuckbog down
• cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  1. The mud mired our cart
  Synonym:bog down
• entrap
  1. Our people should not be mired in the past
  Synonym:entangle

双语例句

• I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  我到了深水中。大水漫过我身。
• I want to live long. I'm looking forward to a day when I can extricate myself from the mire and fly to the skies by taking advantages of a thunder-storm.
  我还盼望着总有那么一天，我可以从污泥中拔出我的身子，我要乘雷飞上天空。
• At one time, had smooth sailing in his studies on the fell, Xian into the mire!
  一度，一帆风顺得他在自己的学业上跌倒了，陥进了泥潭！
• Having risen from the mire of swamps and marshes, the Orcish hordes have swept across this domain in the fulfillment of that destiny.
  从沼泽和湿地中崛起，兽人部落横扫这片领土以实现这个命运。
• This method will create great quantities of dirty mire in the process, easily causing secondary pollution.
  这类方法在处理过程中产生大量污泥，容易产生二次污染。
• They have dragged the planet deeper into the mire of militarism, tension, and war.
  他们把这个星球更深地拉入黩武、对抗和战争的泥淖之中。
• The mire now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist.
  现在淤泥已到膝下，而水则到了腰际。
• They have been in mire for the some time.
  他们陷入困境已有一段时间了。
• She has become marble in becoming mire.
  她在变成污泥的同时，变成了木石。
• He tried to increase his income by gambling only to plunge more deeply into the mire.
  他企图藉赌博增加收入，却陷入了更深的困境。