泥潭

Spiritual enjoyment is by no means the same as creature comfort, as the latter will be restricted in quality and quantity of the material itself and the pursuit of it will sink man into the bottomless mire, which is very exhausting.

精神享受绝不同于物质享受，因为物质享受会受限于物质本身的数量、质量，而且一味追求物质享受会进入无底泥潭，是很累人的事。

All this should not imply that CUNY is out of the woods.

这些变化并不意味这城市大学开始走出泥潭。

And nice guys everywhere will just not get what's going on and they will remain confused and disparately powerless or less than they could be most of their adult lives unless they really find their own path through the mire.

好好先生、只会到处不到怎么回事，他们还是会继续混乱，分散无能为力他们最可能低于其成人生活，除非他们真的找到自己的道路，通过泥潭。

But he does not think the victory will necessarily save the Democrats from a drubbing in November or even be a net positive .

但他并不认为这场胜利并不能保证让民主党在11月免于一场恶战，甚至可能是一个泥潭。

When you are facing the drudgery of life.

你陷入泥潭的时候

Wewill embroil them, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire.

我们将会纠缠他们、迷惑他们，使他们陷入泥潭。

When the thunder comes with fulminate, we struggle together for survival.

每当电闪雷鸣，共同的坚持让我们走出泥潭。

Mr Scott was floundering, his attempt to rebrand Wal-Mart as an eco-crusader widely dismissed as mere "greenwashing".

Scott正深陷泥潭而苦苦挣扎，他极力将沃尔玛打造成"环保卫士"，却被大众认为徒有虚名。

Which had championed untrammelled emotion as the fount of altruism, could easily spill over into self-indulgent histrionics; the sincerity they valued as the highest good could drift into self-deception and selfishness.

他们开始认识到，18世纪后期对敏感顶礼膜拜，将未驾驭的情感视为利他主义之源泉，却往往过于汹涌而沦为个人放纵的表演；而真诚----曾被视为世间最美好品质----却滑向了自欺欺人和自私的泥潭。

Merrill is still emerging from the aftermath of its dotcom excesses, Mercedes is mired in the problems of its injudicious international expansion, and McDonald's new chief executive must refocus the business on healthier products.

美林正从其过度的互联网投资中复苏过来；奔驰还因为不明智的国际扩张而陷在泥潭中；麦当劳的新任首席执行官不得不重新把重心放在开发更健康的食品上。

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。