morass
发音
英 [məˈræs]
美 [məˈræs, mɔ-]
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- n.
- 缠作一团
- 困境
- <文>沼泽
- 陷阱
单词词源
morass 沼泽，困境
来自Proto-Germanic*mari,湖，海，词源同moor,marsh,marine.即像湖一样的，后用于指湿地，沼泽。引申词义困境。
双语例句
- 1. 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。
- 2. Spotlit by night , however , it writhes with a slithering morass of beetles , moths and bugs .
- 然而到了夜晚，幕布会用聚光灯点亮，有许许多多的甲壳虫、飞蛾和小虫在上面乱爬。
- 3. Warnings about extreme prices are often waved off as pessimism or lost in the morass of information we take in every day , allowing speculation to continue .
- 有关极端价格的警告常常被视为过于悲观而扔到一边，或是淹没在了每日接受到的海量信息中，导致投机行为继续。
- 4. The danger is that their contribution will go the way of north sea oil : a once-in-a-generation stimulant , swamped by state-sponsored social programmes and government morass .
- 危险在于，他们的贡献将会落得与北海石油一样的下场：政府赞助的社会项目与政府繁文缛节的泥潭，淹没了一代人一遇的推动因素。
- 5. Ms. yan got caught up in a criminal morass when one of the checks deposited into her hong kong hsbc account turned out to be the proceeds from a mortgage fraud .
- 严穗陵陷入刑事案件困境是因为，存入其香港汇丰银行户头的一张支票是一起抵押贷款欺诈案的非法所得。