morass
英 [məˈræs]
美 [məˈræs]
n. 困境; 陷阱; 沼泽
复数:morasses
BNC.21135 / COCA.19432
牛津词典
noun
- 困境;陷阱
an unpleasant and complicated situation that is difficult to escape from - 沼泽
a dangerous area of low soft wet land
柯林斯词典
- 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 amorass, you mean that it seems impossible to escape from or resolve, because it has become so serious or so complicated.- I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。 - ...the economic morass.
经济混乱
- I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- 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。 - Corporate tax is an ethical morass.
法人税是个复杂繁乱的职业道德问题。 - 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”。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。 - 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 - The country is caught in a morass of debt.
这个国家陷入债务的泥沼之中。