沼泽地

" In the past, he says, cops measured their success by arrests and response times to emergency calls, which was like "swatting mosquitoes in a swamp.

在过去，他说，警察们以对报警电话的反应时间和逮捕作为衡量他们成功的准绳，就像&在沼泽地里拍蚊子&。

If you don't like traipsing through steamy jungles for a glimpse of the anaconda, then these seasonal swamps offer a breath-taking alternative.

如果不想进入烟雾辽绕的丛林观看森蚺的表演，那改去季节性的沼泽地也能提供一趟惊险之旅。

For the rest of the evening,I thought of nothing but the stranger on the marshes.

晚上休息时，我其它的事情都不想，只考虑沼泽地里那个陌生人。

Was'.'' pretty lonely and had to struggle against monsters from the sea and the marshes.

却'。''是相当孤独地与沼泽地和海洋里的怪兽相搏斗。

One Sunday Joe and I went out on the marshes,as usual, to study together.

一个星期天，乔和我来到沼泽地，照常一起学习。

I had contracted a fever in the marshes.

我曾在沼泽地发过一次寒热。

The seaport town of Boston and the marshes nearby held much to interest Ben and his friends.

本和他的伙伴们对海港城市波士顿及其附近的沼泽地很感兴趣。

" He called the marshes "unique and magnificent.

&用他的话说，这些沼泽地&独特而壮观。

Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.

沼泽地植物的一个小属，纤细苔藓状，花白色或紫罗兰色。

In ancient time Eridu is situated on a large lake or lagoon near the Persian gulf and surrounded by reed-lands and marshy areas, with swamps and half-floating islands, where almost literally the earth is created by the interplay between the sweet water Aps? and the salt water (the sea Ti鋗at as stated in the first few lines of the Epic of Creation Enuma eli.

在古时候，伊利都位于波斯湾附近的一个大湖或礁湖上，周围被芦苇和沼泽地围住，夹杂着湿地和半漂浮的岛屿，字面意义上的土地的创造几乎是与甜水相互影响的（阿帕斯和咸水在创世史诗的头几行里提到过）。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。