搜尋結果
mire
- IPA[ˈmī(ə)r]
美式
- a stretch of swampy or boggy ground;soft and slushy mud or dirt
- cause to become stuck in mud;cover or spatter with mud
noun: mire, plural noun: mires
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a stretch of swampy or boggy ground acres of land had been reduced to a mire
- ▪ soft and slushy mud or dirt the roads retained their winter mire 同義詞
- ▪ a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat. 同義詞
- 2. a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself he has been left to squirm in a mire of new allegations
動詞
- 1. cause to become stuck in mud sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down 同義詞
- ▪ cover or spatter with mud the horse waded through the red mud that mired it to its hocks 同義詞
- ▪ involve someone or something in (a difficult situation) the economy is mired in its longest recession since the war 同義詞
- 更多解釋
- IPA[ˈmʌɪə]
英式
- a stretch of swampy or boggy ground: acres of land had been reduced to a mire
- cause to become stuck in mud: sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down
Oxford Dictionary