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单词 quicksand
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quicksand
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkwɪk.sænd/us
/ˈkwɪk.sænd/
(alsoquicksands[plural])
deepwetsandthatsucksin anyonetryingtowalkacrossit, or anareaofsandlike this:
It took 50 rescuers twohourstofreearunnerwho gotstuckin quicksand.
Surveys hadfailedtorevealstretchesof quicksand anddeepclay.
Thebayhas some of the world's mostdangerousquicksands .
asituation,especiallyone that isunpleasanttodealwith, that is verydifficultfor someone to get out of:
Thecountryhadmanagedtoextractitself from the quicksand at last.
Iseemedto beflounderingdeeperanddeeperinto the mostlethalofsocialquicksands .
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  • Are there notlionsandtigersandpoisonoussnakesand quicksand and otherhazards?
  • Building arecoveryonleverageis likebuildingyournewhomeon quicksand.
  • Thecocklesare in anareabetween twochannels, one of themnotoriousfor quicksands.
  • They were never going to make anyprogresswhilerunningin quicksand.
  • Icashedmycheckwithoutguilt, but wasmiredin the quicksand ofmiddleageandunfulfilledpotential.
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(Definition ofquicksandfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
quicksand
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkwɪk.sænd/us
/ˈkwɪk.sænd/
deepwetsandthatsucksin anyonetryingtowalkacrossit
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quicksand| American Dictionary

quicksand
noun[U]
us
/ˈkwɪkˌsænd/
amassofwetsandinto whichpeopleandobjectscansink
(Definition ofquicksandfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofquicksand

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Like stepping intoquicksand, often walkers do not realize that a surface is slippery until they have already stepped onto it.
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It does include some eccentricities, most notable of which is a detailed set of instructions of how to get out ofquicksand!
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You can only jump out of quicksands when there is a springboard which is sufficiently strong and resilient to enable you to make that leap.
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A road which is founded on the quicksands of illusion never yet led to victory.
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They are both quicksands, but there ought to be a point at which there is an acceptable solution to the dilemma.
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I see no future in repeating such discussions year after year when, in reality, the policy stands on aquicksand.
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Unless there are clear guidelines based on such a consensus, plans for rural development will sink beneath the quicksands of innumerable planning subcommittees.
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Any debate about increased defence co-operation must not be allowed to grind into thequicksandof an interminable wrangle about a possible institutional framework.
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He has liberated the entire national newspaper industry from the fetters imposed on it by the print unions and the quicksands of soft management.
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It is onquicksandas far as its arguments are concerned on this issue.
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The assumed return of a positive rate of interest cannot be justified in the quicksands of the present inflationary situation.
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Probably the idea is quite unrealisable but surely there must be quicksands round our shores.
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Just think of thequicksandon which you enter by that casuistical argument if you seek to justify the proposal.
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I am not prepared to see my livelihood sunk in political quicksands.
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We know that one nation cannot be built on inflationary quicksands.
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