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quagmire n. 沼泽地；困境 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). 【记】知道mire就够了，mire 泥潭，困境，nightmire 恶梦，晚上的困境

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['kwægmaiə] 【英】 n.沼泽地(soft miry land)；困境(predicament)【记】 quag(沼泽)＋mire(泥 潭)【例】 The country slipped into an economic quagmire. n. 沼泽地; 困境 = predicament【记】quag(n 沼泽), mire(n 泥潭): mi密, re热－又密又热的地方－沼泽

单词	quagmire
音标	['kwægmaiə]
解释	n. 沼泽地；困境
红宝书	【英】 n.沼泽地(soft miry land)；困境(predicament) 【记】 quag(沼泽)＋mire(泥潭) 【例】 The country slipped into an economic quagmire.
字源	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).
不择手段背单词	n. 沼泽地; 困境 = predicament 【记】quag(n 沼泽), mire(n 泥潭): mi密, re热－又密又热的地方－沼泽
趣味全助记	【记】知道mire就够了，mire 泥潭，困境，nightmire 恶梦，晚上的困境

Quagmire N Bog Sense Reference Kwægmaiə 沼泽地；困境 英

Quagmire N Bog Sense Reference Kwægmaiə 沼泽地；困境英