morass

英 [məˈræs] 美 [məˈræs]

n.  困境; 陷阱; 沼泽

复数:morasses

GRE

BNC.21135 / COCA.19432



牛津词典

noun

  1. 困境;陷阱
    an unpleasant and complicated situation that is difficult to escape from
    1. 沼泽
      a dangerous area of low soft wet land

      柯林斯词典

      1. N-COUNT 复杂混乱的情况;乱糟糟的一堆;困境
        If you describe an unpleasant or confused situation as a morass, you mean that it seems impossible to escape from or resolve, because it has become so serious or so complicated.
        1. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
          我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
        2. ...the economic morass.
          经济混乱

      双语例句

      1. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
        我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
      2. EXAMPLE: Initially, having to face the morass of customs regulations involved with international shipments can discourage inexperienced exporters.
        一开始,没有经验的出口商在应对与国际运输和有关的关税规定时可能会感到泄气。
      3. Lives may not be at risk here, but given how far out on a limb he had gone in denying any problem ( and now knowledge of the problem) his PR morass is pretty hairy.
        虽说摩根大通的这起事件可能无关性命,但鉴于戴蒙曾经孤注一掷地否认有任何问题(而现在问题已经暴露了),他的公关工作可真是一团糟。
      4. Add to that the aspect that the co-founder being removed could be bound by marriage to another co-founder – with the common circumstance that one co-founder is engineering the removal of the other – and one can quickly see what a morass this situation can become.
        我们经常会看到公司的创始人之一图谋赶走另一位联合创始人,然而,离任的联合创始人有可能和另一个创始人是夫妻关系,一旦如此,事情就将变得极其错综复杂。
      5. Better yet, the lighttpd configuration file isn't the morass that Apache's is.
        更好的是,lighttpd配置文件比Apache的配置文件简单得多。
      6. Until this happens, we're stuck in a morass of noninteroperable files that break as they're transferred across national, platform, and linguistic boundaries.
        除非这样,否则当文件跨越国界、平台和语言传递的时候,我们就会陷入不能互操作的泥潭。
      7. Too many people get distracted first thing in the morning with unimportant activities such as diving right into their morass of e-mail, when there may be a whole host of more important issues that need dealing with.
        很多人一大早就会被并不重要的事情而分心,比如查看大量的电子邮件。而此时,可能有一大堆更重要的事情需要处理。
      8. The Orcs are pushed back to the brink of the Dark Portal on the Black Morass.
        兽人被击退到黑色沼泽的黑暗之门外围。
      9. On the Morass in Public Policy Evaluation and Innovating System
        试论我国公共政策评估存在的困境及制度创新
      10. In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
        他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。
      11. There's no rule book to guide you through the morass of eldercare tasks and demands.
        没有一本规则手册,让你走过老年人照顾任务和需求的”泥沼“。
      12. He became expert at feeling for it in the morass with his feet.
        他成了专家,能用脚在沼泽里探路。
      13. Corporate tax is an ethical morass.
        法人税是个复杂繁乱的职业道德问题。
      14. To make matters even more complicated, the once-technical issue of leverage has become entangled in a morass of politics and lobbying courtesy of outraged commercial banks.
        让事情愈加复杂的是,杠杠这个曾经的技术问题已经卷入了政治泥沼和愤怒的商业银行礼貌的游说之中。
      15. A computer-based system of scholarly communication offers the hope of an escape from the insoluble morass of economic, space, and access problems of the last few years.
        在过去几年以电脑为基础的系统学术交流提供了摆脱困境不能解决的经济,空间,存取问题。
      16. Organized abandonment gives them a way out of the morass.
        有组织的放弃给他们指明了离开这片沼泽的出路。
      17. Less than an hour away from the chaotic heart of New Orleans lays a primordial backwater morass known as the Honey Island Swamp.
        从新奥尔良的混乱的中心不到一个小时的路程有一个原始的被称为蜂蜜岛沼泽的“回水泥沼”。
      18. To help facilitate this goal-oriented philosophy, one technique we're using in Wrath of the Lich King is to build more mission-based instances along the lines of Old Hillsbrad and Black Morass.
        为了帮助促进这个“目标导向”的方针,我们在《巫妖王之怒》中会利用更多的“任务引导”手法,就像“旧希尔斯布莱德丘陵”和“黑暗沼泽”一样。
      19. Navigating this it morass will not be easy.
        在这片it沼泽中前行并非易事。
      20. If the euro were to disappear altogether, the question of how to handle euro-denominated contracts would be a legal morass.
        如果欧元彻底消失,如何处置以欧元计价的合同,将成为一个法律上的泥淖。
      21. Some speeches were good on the whole, but had parts that were not quite right. Mathematical knowledge was certain and offered a secure foothold in a morass.
        有的全文讲得还好,但是有某些部分不妥当。数学知识是确定无疑的,它给人们在沼泽地上提供了一个稳妥的立足点。
      22. British relief system s enlightenment on the legislation of China s absolute poverty relief; Along with thousands of other families in dying inner cities, the Wolfs have become mired in a morass of welfare, crime and self-destruction.
        英国济贫制度对我国绝对贫困救济立法的启示他们同几千家居住在毫无希望的贫民窟中的居民一道,陷入接受救济、违法犯罪、自我毁灭的困境。
      23. Whoever questions our ability to lead the revolutionary war will fall into the morass of opportunism.
        谁怀疑我们领导革命战争的能力,谁就会陷进机会主义的泥坑里去。
      24. Lothar destroys three outposts in the Black Morass.
        洛萨在黑色沼泽摧毁了三个岗哨。
      25. Of course, not all cases end up in a morass of uncertainty, and the ability to demand assurances dose often enable a party either to obtain adequate security or to establish a repudiation.
        当然,并非所有的案子都会有那么多的不确定性,而要求提供保证不仅为预见方提供了充分的保证,同时也为确立违约提供了很好的依据。
      26. Mona Monroe mourned the moral morass of the monster.
        门罗夫人为这个陷入道德困境的怪物而哀伤。
      27. This leaves the young son and his uncle, Chang Sung-taek, which is not exactly the dream team to lead the north out of its morass.
        这就剩下了金正恩和他的姑父张成泽(changsung-taek),这可不像是带领国家收拾烂摊子的理想团队。
      28. The country is caught in a morass of debt.
        这个国家陷入债务的泥沼之中。
      29. A regular morass of details; a regular nincompoop; he's a veritable swine.
        真正被掩盖的细节;十足的傻子;他真是个猪。

      英英释义

      noun

      1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

          Synonym:    mirequagmirequagslack