quagmire

The whole stinking civilized world lies like a quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile.

整个发臭的文明世界像一块沼泽地一样处于这个深渊底部，这种犹犹豫豫的微笑像一座海市蜃楼一样在上面飘忽不定地摇曳。

She wanted to go on like this not to the next smoothly off from nearby vines, stretching from the quagmire of mud stained the ground sway.

她想这样下去不行，就顺手从附近折下一条藤蔓，伸入泥潭，沾上泥浆向地上挥洒。

You [America] cannot preserve your power over Iraq with a few tanks, artillery and weapons. Today, you are prisoners of your own quagmire.

你[美国]不能维护你的权力向伊拉克提供了数辆坦克，大炮和武器。如今，你是轮到你自己的事了。

Since the "9. 11" , after George W. Bush launched two consecutive so-called "war on terror" , the United States into a quagmire of war.

自从“9.11”之后，小布什连续发动了两场所谓的“反恐战争”，把美国拖入到战争的泥潭。

"Vietnam" , synonymous with "quagmire" , is shorthand for an unwinnable war. So it was over the war in Iraq.

“越南”，这一“沼泽”的同义词，是对一场注定失败的战争的简要表述。

So, far from being on the brink of another quagmire, Libya is in fact in pole position compared with other countries in the region.

所以，利比亚非但不会陷入困境，实际上还在该地区的几个国家中占有优势。

It was the sound of a large number of horses'feet trampling through the quagmire.

有人声大批马匹的脚踏在泥潭。

By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire.

由于践踏得多了，我们把盐泽的边沿弄成一个泥沼了。

Over the next few decades, something's gotta give -- or else Japan may never escape from its quagmire.

未来几十年，日本必须有所动作，否则可能永远难逃其经济困境。

Kevin : Look, all I wanted to do was take you a nice dress-up party with my family and now it's just turned into a quagmire.

看，我只想让你穿得帅点，然后和我的家人一起参加舞会，并不是变成现在的尴尬局面。

Fighting during the afternoon was halted by a torrential downpour that turned the battlefield into a quagmire.

一场突如其来的暴雨把战场变得泥泞不堪，下午的战斗也因此中止了。

Given the political quagmire, economic policy in the next few years is likely to remain a matter of muddling through.

考虑到政治上的困境，民主党未来几年的经济政策也许都只能敷衍了事。

My mistake was to underestimate the ability of the world's premier financial institutions to sink themselves in a quagmire.

我的错误是低估了全球主要金融机构把自己拖入困境的能力。

Here standard setters' quest for intellectual consistency will run into a political quagmire.

在这里标准安装员对知识一贯性的追求将陷入一个政治泥潭之中。

Danes fear that without the krone they might have sunk into an Irish quagmire .

丹麦人担心的是如果没有了克朗（丹麦的通行货币）他们国家可能会陷入像爱尔兰那样的困境。

Unreasonable sales practices make homemade laser mold welder into a quagmire, it is difficult to extricate themselves.

做法不合理的销售使之成为一个泥潭国产激光模具焊机，难以自拔。

And Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, has chimed in with warnings of a Vietnam-style quagmire.

美参议员约翰•麦凯恩，前共和党总统候选人则警告美国可能陷入越战一样的泥潭。

Within weeks, though, vainglory turns into a costly and bloody quagmire.

但是，几周之内，虚荣变成了昂贵的和血腥的泥潭。

Gives people a sense of ominous silence, I even think that a writer would not be jumping into the quagmire of the unfinished bar.

给人一种不祥的死寂之感，我甚至在想，那个作家不会是画完了就跳进了泥潭吧。

Arriving in China in early March, Stilwell found himself in a military and political quagmire.

在三月抵达中国以后，是地位很快发现他处在一个军事和政治的困局之中。