Word · Frequency #22373
quagmire
沼泽；泥沼；泥潭
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- 1.
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
沼泽般潮湿的地面。
- 2.
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
低洼松软潮湿、脚下会下陷的地方
- 3.
A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
危险、混乱、麻烦的局面；无法解决的困境。
沼泽般潮湿的地面。；低洼松软潮湿、脚下会下陷的地方；危险、混乱、麻烦的局面；无法解决的困境。；沼泽地；泥坑
In use
After the rain, the path turned into a quagmire and we could hardly walk.
The heavy trucks got stuck in the quagmire near the construction site.
The farmer's fields became a quagmire after the flood.
a quagmire of [sth]
常用比喻义，表示难以摆脱的困境。
The country is caught in a quagmire of debt and political instability.
该国深陷债务和政治动荡的泥潭。
sink into a quagmire
Without a clear strategy, the company sank into a quagmire.
没有明确战略，公司陷入了泥沼。
be bogged down in a quagmire
Connections
Collocations
- political quagmire
- 政治泥潭
- The reform effort became a political quagmire.改革努力变成了政治泥潭。
- legal quagmire
- 法律困境
- The dispute turned into a legal quagmire.这场纠纷变成了法律困境。
- fall into a quagmire
- 陷入泥潭；陷入困境
- The company fell into a quagmire of debt.这家公司陷入了债务泥潭。
- drag someone into a quagmire
- 把某人拖入困境
- He dragged his partners into the quagmire of the failed project.他把合伙人拖入了失败项目的泥潭。
- bogged down in a quagmire
- 深陷泥潭；陷入僵局
- The negotiations are bogged down in a quagmire of conflicting demands.谈判因各方的相互冲突的要求而深陷僵局。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记 quagmire：quag（沼）+ mire（泥）都是泥地，双重泥泞=困境；想象脚陷软泥，越挣扎越深，一团乱麻。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：nature/geography writing、journalism on politics, economics, or diplomacy quagmire 有字面和比喻两层意思：字面指泥沼、沼泽地，多用于描述自然地形；比喻指难以摆脱的困境，比较常见于新闻和正式讨论（如政治、经济、外交）。整体语气偏正式，日常口语中较少用。
Pronunciation & Spelling
没有与 quagmire /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪɚ/ 完全押韵的常用词，因为其主重音在第一音节 /kwæɡ/。mire、admire、acquire、desire、fire、tire 等词与 quagmire 的结尾共有 /maɪɚ/ 或 /aɪɚ/ 的读音，但不构成整词的完美押韵。注意：quag 读作 /kwæɡ/，不要按拼写读成 /kwɑːɡ/；也不要将 quagmire 中的 qua 与 aqua /ˈækwə/ 中的 qua 混淆。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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