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　

IELTSGRETEM8

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

• 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。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.
  他把我从苦海里救了出来。
• And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
  他们用绳子将耶利米系下去。牢狱里没有水，只有淤泥，耶利米就陷在淤泥中。
• Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
  求你搭救我出离淤泥、不叫我陷在其中.求你使我脱离那些恨我的人、使我出离深水。
• The civil war is a mire which Western leaders are understandably reluctant to be drawn into.
  这场内战是一个泥潭，西方领导人可以理解小愿被卷入。
• She couldn't withstand the lure of money and was dragged into the mire.
  她经不起金钱的引诱，被拉下水了。
• Smashed, mix his heart's blood with the mire of the land.
  碎裂了，他心脏的血与地上的泥泞混在一起。
• 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。
• We slowly sank into the mire of love.
  我们慢慢的陷入了爱的泥沼。
• 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。