morass
英 [məˈræs]
美 [məˈræs]
n. 困境; 陷阱; 沼泽
复数:morasses
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.- I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。 - ...the economic morass.
经济混乱
- I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - On the Morass in Public Policy Evaluation and Innovating System
试论我国公共政策评估存在的困境及制度创新 - This leaves the young son and his uncle, Chang Sung-taek, which is not exactly the dream team to lead the north out of its morass.
这就剩下了金正恩和他的姑父张成泽(changsung-taek),这可不像是带领国家收拾烂摊子的理想团队。 - 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。 - Until this happens, we're stuck in a morass of noninteroperable files that break as they're transferred across national, platform, and linguistic boundaries.
除非这样,否则当文件跨越国界、平台和语言传递的时候,我们就会陷入不能互操作的泥潭。 - Of course, not all cases end up in a morass of uncertainty, and the ability to demand assurances dose often enable a party either to obtain adequate security or to establish a repudiation.
当然,并非所有的案子都会有那么多的不确定性,而要求提供保证不仅为预见方提供了充分的保证,同时也为确立违约提供了很好的依据。 - Corporate tax is an ethical morass.
法人税是个复杂繁乱的职业道德问题。 - In his greasy morass of meanness and selfishness.
他卑鄙自私的泥泞沼泽。 - 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。