morass

英 [məˈræs]

美 [məˈræs]

n.  困境; 陷阱; 沼泽

复数：morasses　

GRE

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.
  1. I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
     我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
  2. ...the economic morass.
     经济混乱

英英释义

noun

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  Synonym:mirequagmirequagslack

双语例句

• Some speeches were good on the whole, but had parts that were not quite right. Mathematical knowledge was certain and offered a secure foothold in a morass.
  有的全文讲得还好，但是有某些部分不妥当。数学知识是确定无疑的，它给人们在沼泽地上提供了一个稳妥的立足点。
• I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
  我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
• A computer-based system of scholarly communication offers the hope of an escape from the insoluble morass of economic, space, and access problems of the last few years.
  在过去几年以电脑为基础的系统学术交流提供了摆脱困境不能解决的经济，空间，存取问题。
• 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。
• If the euro were to disappear altogether, the question of how to handle euro-denominated contracts would be a legal morass.
  如果欧元彻底消失，如何处置以欧元计价的合同，将成为一个法律上的泥淖。
• The country is caught in a morass of debt.
  这个国家陷入债务的泥沼之中。
• Add to that the aspect that the co-founder being removed could be bound by marriage to another co-founder – with the common circumstance that one co-founder is engineering the removal of the other – and one can quickly see what a morass this situation can become.
  我们经常会看到公司的创始人之一图谋赶走另一位联合创始人，然而，离任的联合创始人有可能和另一个创始人是夫妻关系，一旦如此，事情就将变得极其错综复杂。
• A regular morass of details; a regular nincompoop; he's a veritable swine.
  真正被掩盖的细节；十足的傻子；他真是个猪。
• 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。
• Whoever questions our ability to lead the revolutionary war will fall into the morass of opportunism.
  谁怀疑我们领导革命战争的能力，谁就会陷进机会主义的泥坑里去。