查询词典 quagmire

Although she was unable to rescue the quagmire of crime, let her get a lighter sentence.

虽然她不能挽救犯罪的泥潭，让她得到从轻处罚。

Our journey will inevitably be reflected in the stormy sea and sand has a quagmire, and even wolves have Tiger Balm!

我们的旅程中免不了会有惊涛骇浪，有风沙泥潭，甚至会有虎豹豺狼！

When Mr Obama was running for election, Iraq looked like a quagmire and Afghanistan seemed more winnable.

当奥巴马入行大选的时候，伊拉克看起来一团糟，而阿富汗却形式大好。

She said that she couldn't make a living in herchosen profession and that not even her moonlighting twice a week could puther out of the financial quagmire she was in.

她说她选择的教师职业使她无法生活下去，即使她每周两次晚上出去打工，还是不能摆脱经济站据的窘境。李小姐的情况很普遍。

With hindsight, Mr Ospel and Mr Wuffli made their fatal error in 2005, when they tried to retain John Costas, the head of investment banking, by letting him set up an in-house hedge fund called Dillon Read Capital Management. Unfortunately Mr Costas went headlong into American subprime mortgages. Worse still, the dealers at UBS, bedazzled by his genius, followed him into the quagmire.

回过头来看， Ospel和Wuffli先生在2005年犯下致命错误，当时他们意图，通过让他设立一个内部的对冲基金，保留投资银行主管John Costas，，不幸的是，Costas先生一头扎进美国次级贷，更糟的是，UBS的交易员为他的天才所蒙蔽，跟着跳进泥潭。

So if Mr. Obama gets us out of Iraq (without bogging us down in an equally expensive Afghan quagmire) and manages to engineer a solid economic recovery - two big ifs, to be sure - getting the deficit down to around $500 billion by 2013 shouldn't be

因此，如果欧巴马让我们从伊拉克脱身，并设法创造稳固的经济复苏，当然，这是两大假设，那麼，在2013年之前让赤字减到约5000亿美元，应该一点也不难。

So if Obama gets us out of Iraq (without bogging us down in an equally expensive Afghan quagmire) and manages to engineer a solid economic recovery - two big ifs, to be sure - getting the deficit down to around $500 billion by 2013 shouldn't be at all difficult.

因此，如果欧巴马让我们从伊拉克脱身，并设法创造稳固的经济复苏，当然，这是两大假设，那麼，在2013年之前让赤字减到约5000亿美元，应该一点也不难。

While light repairs corduroying the road would allow trucks passage, about twothirds or forty kilometers of the road were subject to flooding and rapidly could turn into a quagmire in which trucks sank to their undercarriages.

尽管在路面上铺设了木排，可供卡车通过，（鸟注：light repairs是什么意思？）大约三分之二，或者说四十公里的公路还是为洪水所困，很快成了泥淖，卡车在里面陷到底盘。

While light repairs corduroying the road would allow trucks passage, about twothirds or forty kilometers of the road were subject to flooding and rapidly could turn into a quagmire in which trucks sank to their undercarriages.

尽管在路面上铺设了木排，可供卡车通过，（注：light repairs是什么意思？）大约三分之二，或者说四十公里的公路还是为洪水所困，很快成了泥淖，卡车在里面陷到底盘。

The plan, however, blew up in the face of its masterminds; everything spiraled out of control and the Israeli Army found itself stuck in a quagmire.

可是，该计划在它的设计者面前落空了；一切都失去了控制，以军陷入了战争的泥潭。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。