mire

英 [ˈmaɪə(r)]

美 [ˈmaɪər]

n. 泥潭; 泥沼
v. (使)陷于泥泞; (使)陷入困境

复数：mires　过去分词：mired　过去式：mired　现在分词：miring　第三人称单数：mires　

BNC.19852 / COCA.13062

牛津词典

noun

N-SING 泥潭;困境;艰难处境
You can refer to an unpleasant or difficult situation as amireof some kind.
1. ...a mire of poverty and ignorance.
  贫穷与无知的泥潭
N-UNCOUNT 灰尘;烂泥;污泥
Mireis dirt or mud.
1. ...the muck and mire of sewers and farm- yards.
  下水道和农家庭院的污垢和烂泥

noun

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Synonym:quagmirequagmorassslack
a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
1. the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president
2. caught in the mire of poverty
deep soft mud in water or slush
1. they waded through the slop
Synonym:slop

verb

soil with mud, muck, or mire
1. The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
Synonym:muckmudmuck up
be unable to move further
1. The car bogged down in the sand
Synonym:grind to a haltget stuckbog down
cause to get stuck as if in a mire
1. The mud mired our cart
Synonym:bog down
entrap
1. Our people should not be mired in the past
Synonym:entangle

Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
求你搭救我出离淤泥、不叫我陷在其中.求你使我脱离那些恨我的人、使我出离深水。
She couldn't withstand the lure of money and was dragged into the mire.
她经不起金钱的引诱，被拉下水了。
And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
他们用绳子将耶利米系下去。牢狱里没有水，只有淤泥，耶利米就陷在淤泥中。
Soil with mud, muck, or mire.
用泥土、垃圾或污泥弄脏。
My name had been dragged through the mire.
我的名声受到了玷污。
To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire.
好像在泥潭中一样被陷入或者受到阻碍。
The mire now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist.
现在淤泥已到膝下，而水则到了腰际。
R: unmerciful mire, lick up the most lovely person in the world!
罗密欧：你无情的泥，吞噬了世上最可爱的人！
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
我到了深水中。大水漫过我身。
They have been in mire for the some time.
他们陷入困境已有一段时间了。