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。
• 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。
• British relief system s enlightenment on the legislation of China s absolute poverty relief; Along with thousands of other families in dying inner cities, the Wolfs have become mired in a morass of welfare, crime and self-destruction.
  英国济贫制度对我国绝对贫困救济立法的启示他们同几千家居住在毫无希望的贫民窟中的居民一道，陷入接受救济、违法犯罪、自我毁灭的困境。
• He became expert at feeling for it in the morass with his feet.
  他成了专家，能用脚在沼泽里探路。
• 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。
• Corporate tax is an ethical morass.
  法人税是个复杂繁乱的职业道德问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Lothar destroys three outposts in the Black Morass.
  洛萨在黑色沼泽摧毁了三个岗哨。