英:[məˈræs]
美:[məˈræs, mɔ-]
英:[məˈræs]
美:[məˈræs, mɔ-]
mo·rass
m raes
复数:morasses
noun
an area of soft wet ground such as a swamp or bog.
something that hinders passage or engulfs an unwary person.He'd accepted these enticing credit offers and now he was caught in a morass of debt.
"湿地,沼泽地",1650年代,来自荷兰语 moeras "沼泽,沼泽地",源自中古荷兰语 marasch,来自古法语 marais "沼泽",源自法兰克语,可能来自西日耳曼语 *marisk,源自原始日耳曼语 *mariskaz "像湖一样",源自 *mari "海"(来自 PIE 词根 *mori- "水体")。该词在荷兰语中受到 moer "沼泽"(见 moor(n.))的影响。比喻用法可追溯至1867年。早期的词是 mareis(14世纪早期; 见 marish)。
Dutch moeras, modification of Old French maresc, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English mersc marsh — more at marsh
The first known use of morass was in 1655
morbidadjective
not healthful : diseased
a morbid condition
characterized by gloomy or sick ideas or feelings
takes a morbid interest in funerals
morbidadjective
not healthful : diseased
a morbid condition
characterized by gloomy or sick ideas or feelings
takes a morbid interest in funerals
morbiditynoun
the quality or state of being morbid
the rate at which a disease occurs in a group of individuals
morbidadjective
not healthful : diseased
a morbid condition
characterized by gloomy or sick ideas or feelings
takes a morbid interest in funerals
moratoriumnoun
a legally approved period of delay in the payment of a debt or the performance of a duty
ban entry 2 sense 2, suspension
a moratorium on atomic testing
moratoriumnoun
a legally approved period of delay in the payment of a debt or the performance of a duty
ban entry 2 sense 2, suspension
a moratorium on atomic testing
morassnoun
marsh, swamp
a situation that traps, confuses, or hinders
1 In a way, this morass of detail and intrigue is welcome; it's used to disguise some rather standard bait-and-switch fare as the team try to thwart an assassination attempt.
2 Heavy rains combined with continual bombardments from both sides turned the battlefield into an impassable morass of mud.
3 How do we clamber out of this morass of anger and grief?
4 Long adored as the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee found herself caught in a morass of claims and counterclaims about her competency to manage her own literary legacy.
5 Does anyone wonder why we are sinking into the ignorant morass of a new dark age?
6 How do you caricature something that is already teetering on the edge of caricature without falling into the morass of plain old dumb?
7 But where Silver stood with his lieutenant, all was still in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low white vapour that had crawled during the night out of the morass.
但是西尔弗和他的副官所站的地方还都是在阴影之中,他们的膝部浸在夜间从沼地那边蔓延过来的贴地的白色雾气中。
8 During the transition from British to American control, Detroit seemed a “mind-boggling morass of murky rules.”
9 It would be nice if that morass could be processed with something a little more reliable than regular expressions.
如果这片沼泽地里,能够用比正则表达式稍微可靠点的东西进行处理就好了。
10 The morass of the digital world is indexed and served up to us by search engines.
11 As black men, we’ve all got our strategies for dealing with the resulting morass of fear and loathing that we must navigate every day.
12 At that time the city’s funding of the DIA dwindled to nothing and Detroit sank ever deeper into a financial morass.
13 But in order to get out of his current morass, Bieber has to think creatively.
14 It’s a scene both nostalgic and prescient, one that traces the roots of our current political morass and the media that feed off it.
15 But it’s all right now, this slacker’s morass.
16 Some contend that impeachment makes sense, But I’m not on the side of the fence That believes this morass could be Solved or the grass would be Greener with President Pence.
17 Rather than allowing yourself to sink into a morass of dysfunction and self-sabotage, which is fundamentally what your weight gain is, you’ll be back at the helm, driving full speed towards a better future.
18 The contemporary is facing a morass in which the spirit of reason is sinking. There are more crude denials than reasonable constructions in it.
当代书坛面临着理性精神失落的困境,粗暴的否定太多,理性的建构太少。
19 Thinking about it this way keeps you out of the whole judging-not-judging morass, too, which I encourage at every opportunity.
20 Lothar destroys three outposts in the Black Morass.
洛萨在黑色沼泽摧毁了三个岗哨。
2 堕落
vitiable corrupt abandoned prostitute rotten decadent ruined degenerative perverse perverted putrid deprave profligate degrading reprobate graceless god-forsaken ruinate draggletailed astray fall ruin pollution corruption rot degradation lapse relapse deterioration slime falling degeneration degenerate perversion decadence depravity slough gangrene backslide degeneracy perversity declension profligacy retrogression putrescence putridity pravity decline sink stray degrade deteriorate perish stoop retrograde pervert moulder putrefy pollute vilify debase debauch sophisticate downfall cave-in
3 困难
uneath hard difficult warm terrible painful uncomfortable strait hairy troublesome uneasy arduous laborious thorny fiddly untoward fiddling labored parlous dure difficile trappy need matter trouble difficulty penalty rubber rub knot hassle pinch distress hurdle bunker hardness rigor hump jackpot ill hobble hang-up toughen embog deep water with difficulty
4 混乱
messy confused chaotic troubled turbulent disorderly woolly muddled turbid shambolic inchoate hugger-mugger disorder mess upset confusion zoo chaos jungle tumble turmoil tangle anarchy upheaval dislocation jumble muddle disarray shambles tumult maelstrom mix-up pandemonium misrule foul-up shemozzle snarl-up wander cloud
5 陷阱
6 困境
how-d'ye-do fix hole corner extreme Jam squeeze necessity scrape dilemma strait extremity predicament stalemate stymie logjam rattrap how-do-you-do Serbonian bog tight squeeze trap distress plight difficulty bind mess pickle peril mire slough quandary hot seat a tight corner rat trap a hornets' nest pass bay lurch quagmire flow jam hardship cul-de-sac tight corner on the horns of a dilemma sticky wicket hornet's nest trouble dead end catastrophe abyss straits bed of nails mesh crunch embarrassment adversity a tight spot matter spot nightmare tailspin toils a tough nut to crack serbonian soup jackpot hobble exigence toughie toughy quag double-bind pressure shoe tight picnic schemozzle a kettle of fish
8 沼泽
marshy miry swamp bog marsh fell slough fen quagmire wetlands flow flush moor Moss mire quag marshland Moorish boggy quaggy mere ooze muskeg everglade paludal Moor carr fenland wetland swampland vlei paludine swampy marish poccosin bent dank glade curragh fen land swamp land swamp glider moorish fenny moory wash pan slack lagoon moss dismal sough currach mickery