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单词 mire
释义
mire
noun
uk
/maɪər/us
/maɪr/

mirenoun(WET EARTH)

[Cusually singular]
anareaofdeep,wet,stickyearth
泥潭；沼泽；泥沼
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Geography: wetland
  • bog
  • boggy
  • boreal forest
  • fen
  • floodplain
  • marshland
  • marshy
  • miry
  • morass
  • peat bog
  • peatland
  • quicksand
  • reed bed
  • slough
  • swamp
  • swamp gas
  • swampy
  • water meadow
  • waterlogged
  • wetland
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mirenoun(BAD SITUATION)

[S]literary
anunpleasantsituationthat isdifficulttoescape:
困境
We must not bedrawnintothe mire ofcivilwar.我们一定不能被拖进内战的泥沼中。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • a rough rideidiom
  • abyss
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
  • Augean
  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • half nelson
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
  • rigour
  • rollercoaster
  • the Augean Stablesidiom
  • the hard wayidiom
  • vortex
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miry
(Definition ofmirefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mire| American Dictionary

mire
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/mɑɪər/
anareaofdeep,wet,stickyearth, orfig.anymessysituation:
The cart’swheelssankin theredmire.
mire
verb[T]
us
/mɑɪər/
tocausesomething tosinkindeep,wet,stickyearth, orfig.tocausesomeone or anactivitytobecometrappedin adifficultsituation:
fig.At thetimethecountrywas mired in theGreatDepression.
(Definition ofmirefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmire

mire
At that time the broad outlines of rebuilding were still deeply mired in contention.
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Their earthly lives are mired in guilt ; even their virtues are just dazzling vices.
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Without this elite support their initiative would have remained mired in obscurity and doomed to failure.
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The topic has been mired in ill-repute for the simple reason that good evidence for fueling sensible theories has been hard to come by.
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Politics, mired as it is in elite domination and the employment of coercive force, is ill-suited to the pursuit of any moral goal.
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In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in a morass of intrigue and friction.
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How can we overlook the fact that we are mired in the details of daily life and that perfection has always been a destructive dream?
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They hated every moment of the show, and judged the production of cripplingly poor quality, the narrative inexcusably couthy, and its representations mired in stereotype.
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The smallest soil nutrient pools are found in fellfields (because of low soil nutrient concentrations and shallow soils) and mires (because of low soil concentrations and low bulk densities).
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The danger of such a dual structure, if frozen over time, is that of a permanent inshore group mired in poverty juxtaposed against a wealthier offshore sector.
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However, civil society and political culture in some instances remain mired by a lack of political maturity and sophistication and a superficial attachment to economic performance.
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The procedure may have been cosmopolitan (arbitrators drawn from a number of different states impartially enacting international mores and norms) but the substance of the law was mired in statism.
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The remainder is mired in competition, and there are inequalities in that competition.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Fact: the economy has ever since been mired in such deep recession.
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The countries that remained wedded to the mechanism and the concept of convergence—about which we hear so much—are mired in recession.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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