mire

大学 FREQ #30258

n. 泥沼, 泥泞 vt. 使陷于泥泞, 使陷入困境 vi. 掉进泥坑

发音

UK /ˈmaɪə/
其它
US /ˈmaɪɚ/
US /ˈmaɪɹ/

词形变化

mires 复数 mired mires 三单 mires miring miring 现在分词 mired 过去式 mired 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

陷于泥坑；陷入困境

动词

使陷于泥坑；使陷入困境

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

    污泥

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    An undesirable situation; a predicament.

    可数 不可数
  4. 1.

    An ant.

    废旧 罕用
v.
  1. 1.

    To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

    及物

    to mire a horse or wagon

  2. 2.

    To sink into mud.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To weigh down.

    比喻 及物
  4. 4.

    To soil with mud or foul matter.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

slack quagmire slop morass quag

上位词 6

clay mud difficulty bog difficultness peatbog
动词

同义词 6

mud muck entangle bog down grind to a halt muck up

上位词 10

dirty prevent soil forbid involve grime foreclose preclude begrime forestall

近义相关 2

bog down grind to a halt

相关短语

wallow in the mire

词源

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).

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