英:['maɪərɪ]
美:['maɪrɪ]
英:['maɪərɪ]
美:['maɪrɪ]
mir·y
maI ri
比较级:mirier
最高级:miriest
miriness (n.)
词根:mire
n.mire 泥潭;[地理] 泥沼
vi.mire 陷于泥坑;陷入困境
vt.mire 使陷于泥坑;使陷入困境
noun
wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)
the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest—Saturday Review
heavy often deep mud or slush
The troops trudged onward through the mire.
a troublesome or intractable situation
found themselves in a mire of debt
verb
transitive verb
to cause to stick fast in or as if in mire
The car was mired in the muck.
to hamper or hold back as if by mire : entangle
The company has been mired in legal problems.
to cover or soil with mire
his mired boots
intransitive verb
to stick or sink in mire
a road in which horses and wagons mired regularly—Edmund Arnold
"充满泥泞、沼泽、泥泞的",14世纪晚期,来自 mire(n.)+ -y(2)。相关词汇: Miriness。
Noun and Verb Middle English, from Old Norse mȳrr; akin to Old English mōs marsh — more at moss
The first known use of mire was in the 14th century
misapplyverb
to apply wrongly
misapplyverb
to apply wrongly
misanthropynoun
a dislike or hatred of all human beings
misanthropenoun
a person who dislikes and distrusts other people
misadventurenoun
misfortune sense 2
mire1 of 2noun
wet spongy ground (as of a bog or marsh)
heavy often deep mud or slush
mire2 of 2verb
to sink or stick fast in mire
entangle sense 2, involve
to soil with mud or slush
1 Where it pours Past leagues of desert-sand, Jungles and miry places, Palms of an unknown land, Ferns and their fronded faces; Have we gone forth from God!
2 Then came misfortune Number 3, for the wheels of the Wanderer began to sink deep in the miry meadow.
3 They splashed through miry rut and pool,— Splintered through fence and rail; But chestnut Kate switched over the gate,— I saw them droop and tail.
4 They spent many laborious days in picking their way through dense underbrush and miry swamps, stopping here and there to make rafts to carry them across the numerous streams.
5 There's a deep wide ditch, marshy in places, wet and miry everywhere for a mile either way, and the banks are steep.
6 But how can it be that Thou shouldst build a golden house, the house of Thy dwelling place, in a miry pool?’
7 The ground was so saturated with rain that it was almost impossible for the French to drag their cannon through the miry ruts.
8 According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.”
9 I longed to sit down in the miry way and go to sleep.
10 The ground was miry and boggy, and the pony with difficulty dragged the chaise.
11 She found the park deserted, the paths miry, the water dripping from the trees.
12 If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.”
13 When he got out of doors the sun shone warm and bright, but it had rained over night, so that it was soft and miry, and all the bog-holes were full of water.
14 One was a miner in miry long boots and soil-stained jean, the other a girl in a light dress.
15 And the fascination of the open country, even with the weeping woodlands and soggy, miry underfoot, was coming more and more over her, she further declared.
16 Lakes, pools, morasses, and swamps, are frequent; the rivers of little fall have muddy and miry beds, which on that account become unfordable during the rains.
17 “And these: “‘He took me from a fearful pit, And from the miry clay; And on a rock he set my feet, Establishing my way.’
18 To Frank lying prone on the miry ground, these sounds conveyed a very definite and significant message.
19 Hooray!' yelled Bobby, striking such a whack on Brindle's heaving side that she settled the matter by suddenly lying down to roll, and depositing her encumbrances in the miry ditch.
20 The French army had been marching all night over miry roads, and through mountain defiles.
2 沼泽的
4 泥泞的
heavy muddy squelchy dirty sloppy waterlogged boggy turbid squashy quaggy founderous greasy slimy slush splashy sludgy sloughy slavery foul slushy slobbery
8 骯脏的
dirty foul shabby unclean unwashed grimy squalid grungy porcine mucky scuzzy piggish Augean begrimed frowzy feculent scuzz uncleanly reechy
9 污秽
dirty nasty foul sloppy filthy lousy unclean unholy dingy sordid mangy piggish hoggish soil mess squalor muddy grime
10 骯脏
dirty foul shabby unclean unwashed grimy squalid grungy porcine mucky scuzzy piggish Augean begrimed frowzy feculent scuzz uncleanly reechy foully dirtily dingily frowzily mangily manginess grunge uncleanness squalor foulness seediness dinginess frowziness
11 泥泞
heavy muddy squelchy mudbath dirty sloppy waterlogged boggy turbid squashy quaggy sludge mire quagmire poach mud founderous greasy slimy slush splashy sludgy sloughy miriness sloppiness muddiness slavery foul slushy slobbery wet puddle
12 似泥沼的
13 沾满泥的