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单词 morass
释义
morass
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/məˈræs/us
/məˈræs/

morassnoun[C usually singular](COMPLICATED SITUATION)

something that isextremelycomplicatedanddifficulttodealwith and makes anyprogressalmostimpossible:
泥沼；困境
The morassofrulesandregulationsisdelayingthestartof theproject.繁冗的规章制度拖延了项目的启动。
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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morassnoun[C usually singular](WET GROUND)

literary
anareaofsoft,wetgroundin which it iseasyto getstuck
沼泽，泥淖
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Geography: wetland
  • bog
  • boggy
  • boreal forest
  • fen
  • floodplain
  • marshland
  • marshy
  • mire
  • miry
  • peat bog
  • peatland
  • quicksand
  • reed bed
  • slough
  • swamp
  • swamp gas
  • swampy
  • water meadow
  • waterlogged
  • wetland
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(Definition ofmorassfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

morass| American Dictionary

morass
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/məˈræs/
something that isextremelycomplicatedanddifficulttodealwith, making anyadvancealmostimpossible:
The morass ofrulesandregulationsisdelayingthestartof theproject.
(Definition ofmorassfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmorass

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Finally, there is the horror of our alleged moral sense, which ironically leads us into endless moral morasses.
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There is at hand a convenient way out of the presentmorass.
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Turning finally to the issue of politics in late seventeenth-century plays, we find ourselves again in amorass.
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Similarly, was it possible to create a genuine workers' culture without sinking into amorassof the worst aspects of popular leisure?
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Figuring out how to navigate the tremendousmorassof data will be a bioinformatic stumbling block.
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In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in amorassof intrigue and friction.
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If the remainder of dreams were an undifferentiatedmorass, perhaps the narrowness of the threat simulation hypothesis would be less problematic.
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Wisely they decline to become over-engaged in sorting out this semanticmorass.
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Beyond themorassof critical thought of any kind is the study of underlying cultural factors which can be expressed as a form of 'cultural materialism'.
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There is a danger of getting lost in amorassof detail which is increasingly indirectly related to the original program component or the cause of the type error.
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As a reader of herself, she will understand a political situation better if it is narrated as a literary fiction rather than as amorassof confused observations.
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The result was amorassof confusion.
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Late enough to still espy the obstacle - the financialmorass- on the road ahead of us, but no longer able to avoid it.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have said time and again that the roadmap is the only viable way out of the currentmorass.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
You have put them on morasses where you could not get a foundation.
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